Japan’s ruling party picks former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba as leader. He will become prime minister next week.

Japan’s ruling party will elect its new leader Friday, and the winner will become the country’s next prime minister.

The party leadership win is a ticket to the top job because the Liberal Democratic Party’s ruling coalition currently ...

A crucial party election in Japan on Friday will determine the nation’s new prime minister. The vote by the ruling Liberal ...

A crucial party election that will determine Japan's new prime minister is underway. The vote Friday by the ruling Liberal ...

Shigeru Ishiba was elected as new leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDP on Friday and will highly likely become the country's new prime minister.

A seasoned defence geek and a nationalist who would be Japan's first woman prime minister will go head-to-head in the final ...

Japan's ruling party will choose the nation's leader in a vote on Friday, with three frontrunners: the surfing son of a former prime minister, a veteran defence geek and an arch-nationalist who would ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will elect a new president on Friday to replace outgoing Prime Minister Fumio ...

Former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba won the race to lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Friday and ...

Ishiba, who wants an ‘Asian NATO’ to counter security threats from China and North Korea, is the Liberal Democratic Party’s ...

Ishiba defeated economic security minister Sanae Takaichi in a runoff, after the two won the most votes in the first round in ...