Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is being criticized for distributing gift certificates to 15 first-year lawmakers in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House last week provided reassurance for Tokyo about its alliance with Washington. But analysts say it ...

Shigeru Ishiba was voted in as the 102nd prime minister of Japan at an extraordinary Diet session on Oct. 1 and faced immediate criticism from the opposition bloc. He received 291 out of the 461 ...

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, met in Tokyo on Thursday and agreed to strengthen ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, 2nd from right, speaks at a meeting with families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea at the premier's office in Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2025.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday told family members of Japanese nationals abducted decades ago by North Korea that US President Donald Trump had made a promise to raise the ...

Japan’s main opposition party on Friday called on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s minority government to revise its record $733 billion budget proposal submitted to parliament. Constitutional ...

TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet slid to 40% in the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo poll, down 3 percentage points from the January survey and marking the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba indicated that the government will change its draft budget for fiscal 2025 to secure support from opposition Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party). “We want to ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said he held a regular meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to exchange views on the economy and financial markets ahead of a Group of 20 meeting next week.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has made convincing people to relocate from Tokyo to other parts of Japan where residents are aging and the populations are declining a key policy goal for realizing ...