But Japan’s opposition has remained too fractured to push the governing party out of power, which it has held almost without interruption in postwar times. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...

He will take over as prime minister next Tuesday, replacing Fumio Kishida. Mr. Kishida, who presided over an expansion of Japan’s defense budget and a rapprochement with South Korea during his ...

TOKYO — Japan's governing party on Friday picked former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba as its leader, setting him up to become prime minister next week. The party leadership is a ticket to the ...