Japan's rice prices have doubled in a year, straining households and fueling political tension ahead of key elections ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty ...

TOKYO—Japanese voters deprived the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of the absolute majority it has held for over a decade in Japan’s lower house, with an election Sunday that prolongs a period ...

Japan’s core inflation rate accelerated to 3.7 per cent in May, official data showed today, posing a threat to Prime Minister ...

In a global year of elections, Japan’s long-serving Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has suffered its second-worst result on record. The snap poll on October 27 was intended to secure the mandate ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced cash handouts as a key part of his election campaign to support households ...

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki’s rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...