Shigeru Ishiba was elected as the new prime minister of Japan on Friday. The country’s governing political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, voted for the former minister of defense to lead ...

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 ...

Japan's Soon-To-Be Prime Minister Faces Big Challenge as He Tries to Move Past Ruling Party Scandals TOKYO (AP) — The person chosen Friday to lead Japan's governing party, and become prime ...