Prosecutors on Friday issued a summary indictment against a ruling party staff member in charge of accounting for the party in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, alleging that he failed to properly ...

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Friday urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer ...

By dispatching its foreign minister to the event, Tokyo seems intent on asserting its influence - and avoiding being upstaged ...

The “politics and money” scandal involving factions of Liberal Democratic Party in the Diet has now spilled over into the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. Concern is growing within the LDP that criticism ...