Ishiba has denied breaking political funding laws and said he won't resign. But opposition lawmakers and rivals in his own ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

In his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Trump’s complaints about the trade deficit ended with a costly threat of tariffs. In the 1980s, Japan’s booming economy was widely ...

The first few months of Shigeru Ishiba’s tenure as Japan’s Prime Minister have been largely successful diplomatically, as his government concluded a summit with US President Donald Trump and ...

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 ...