The far right might struggle to form a coalition because most other parties have said they will not work with it.

That poll, which will decide which party controls parliament's powerful lower house, will come on Oct 27, Kyodo reported.

As this evolution was ongoing, Vance walked back some of his earlier comments about Trump. He told Fox News he regretted ...

Japan's key Nikkei index fell over four percent on Monday after former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba was elected head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

Japan's incoming new prime minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to call a snap general election for late October, media reports said Monday.

The euro remained constant at $1.1172, while sterling traded at $1.3381, with traders looking to Friday's US jobs report as ...

Austria's far right topped Sunday's national elections, marking a historic victory by beating the ruling conservatives in the Alpine EU nation .

Donald Trump on Sunday used a speech in key swing state Pennsylvania to urge a "violent" police crackdown on crime in the ...

Questions about Shigeru Ishiba's leadership and management ability weaken his prospects, suggesting his tenure may be ...

The reports emerged after Ishiba said on Friday that he wants to call an election in the country to shore up his mandate ‘as ...

Japan’s next prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, is set to name party veterans to senior posts in his cabinet as he broadly ...

SINGAPORE: A surging yen steadied on Monday as Japan's incoming prime minister signalled monetary policy should remain accommodative, while the dollar slipped on commodity currencies underpinned by ...