Shigeru Ishiba likes the nitty gritty of policy, cigarettes and making models, but his dream job as Japanese prime minister ...

Japan is on track to achieve its target of boosting defense spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product in the next two ...

Ishiba, 68, a self-confessed defense “geek,” is the son of a regional governor and is from Japan’s small Christian minority.

Changes in Japan’s political environment make immigration a challenging issue for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party in ...

Tomorrow, a key election takes in the G7 economy, Japan. The focus is on whether the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner Komeito, which together suffered ...

Ruling coalition predicted to lose majority and will have to seek partners to maintain power, with Ishiba expected to make ...

Economic cooperation and mutual defense and security will be the central issues that would be discussed during the bilateral ...