Former Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishida was elected by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Friday as its leader and, ...

Shigeru Ishiba, right, with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and other candidates, celebrates after Ishiba was ...

Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday won a race to lead Japan’s conservative ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a ...

The person chosen to lead Japan's governing party, and become prime minister next week, is a veteran politician with deep ...

Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister more popular with the rank and file than with his lawmaker colleagues, had sought ...

Ishiba led in most opinion polls, with this being his fifth and, he said, final bid to lead the LDP, which has ruled Japan ...

TOKYO (AP) — A crucial party election in Japan on Friday will determine the nation's new prime minister. The vote by the ...

Japan’s governing party on Friday picked former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba as its leader. The party leadership is a ...

With its approval ratings sagging, Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party has picked a perennial outsider as its new ...

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

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