It appears to have been customary for successive Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) governments to distribute expensive gift certificates as "souvenirs" during dinner gatherings hosted by the prime ...

Ishiba, 67, a former LDP secretary-general, gained 215 votes in a runoff vote in the party’s election, compared with 194 for Sanae Takaichi, 63, the economic security minister. Takaichi won ...

TOKYO – A sense of crisis is building within Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as its status as the ruling party is again in jeopardy after a series of money-related scandals. The LDP has ...

Respondents who said they will vote for the LDP in the Upper House's proportional representation bloc accounted for 20.6%, down 1.4 percentage points from the previous survey in February.

Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Hearing that Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s approval rating fell below 28%, it’s hard not ...