As part of the Olympic Dreams international sports camp project, young Ukrainian judokas from the cities of Bucha, Hostomel, ...

Politics and music are two different worlds. Yet, we find some global leaders taking solace and inspiration in the raw energy ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to stay on and stabilize the political situation after the ruling party’s worst electoral result since 2009. While he is expected to continue as premier ...

Roughly 86% of economists polled by Reuters expect the central bank to leave its rates unchanged when it announces its ...

NHK poll shows the LDP and Komeito are set to win between 174 and 254 of the 465 seats in the lower house of Japan's ...

Japan looks set for one of its closest national elections in years as voters go to the polls Sunday to decide whether to keep the scandal-tainted Liberal Democratic Party in ...

Polls suggest the LDP will lose a number of seats in Sunday's elections, with voters focused more on domestic issues than ...

Since the race kicked off on Oct. 15, former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi has crisscrossed the country to give stump speeches on behalf of many candidates. While Ishiba and the party ...

In this Sept. 12, 2014, file photo, then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, regional revitalization minister Shigeru Ishiba, center, and internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi are seen at the ...

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It was Ishiba's first-ever such offering, his office said. Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister, who ran against Ishiba in the race for the LDP presidency, visited the shrine on Thursday ...

Takaichi pledged that as prime minister she would pay an official visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine that celebrates Japan’s wartime dead, including several Class A war criminals (Japanese ...