Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday instructed ministers to map out a relief package designed to support households struggling with higher prices and stimulate regional economies, ahead of a snap ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Wednesday that Japan is not in an environment requiring an additional rate hike.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sought to show he isn’t pressuring the Bank of Japan over interest rate policy, saying that he ...

He is frank about Japan’s wartime misdeeds, and will thus help to nurture the vital but tetchy relationship with South Korea.

At least six people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Beirut overnight, Lebanon’s Health ...

In Asia, Japan +2%. Hong Kong -1.5%. China closed. India -2.1%. In Europe, at midday, London +0.3%. Paris -0.7%. Frankfurt -0 ...

Only a formal regional military alliance can prevent war in the region, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said recently.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will propose a new happiness index during his first parliamentary policy speech on ...

Japanese shares rallied Thursday as the yen extended losses after the country's new prime minister dampened interest rate ...

Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged 2.57% as the yen weakened and PM Ishiba signaled no rate hikes, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is pledging to stick to the vital Japan-U.S. alliance while calling for it to be ...

Japanese leadership in damage control amid pushback over proposal, which has been described as premature by Washington ...