The outcome has decidedly mixed implications for the LDP’s junior partner.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party has secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election.

Sanae Takaichi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and coalition partner Japan Innovation Party have swept the majority of seats in Japan's lower house.

TOKYO -- Only 47% of the 465 successful candidates in the recent House of Representatives election are in favor of Japan ...

In Taipei, by contrast, the result will be seen as reassuring. Takaichi has been more explicit than many predecessors about ...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's gamble on a snap election has paid off with a decisive win for the nation's ...

Japan's Sanae Takaichi was formally reappointed as prime minister on Wednesday, 10 days after her historic landslide election ...

Takaichi’s decision to hold a snap election just months after her glass-breaking rise to power paid off as her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured 316 of the 465 seats in the parliament’s lower ...

Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral victory, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she ...

The yen had initially pulled back slightly after Takaichi's win on Sunday, with the currency reaching its weakest in two ...

Beijing’s warning comes amid tensions between the two countries after Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said last year that Tokyo could intervene militarily in an attack on Taiwan.

The recent victory of Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is a boon for the U.S.-Japanese relationship. Takaichi and her Liberal Democratic Party won a mandate in the snap elections. And Washington might have won ...