Despite losing to Ishiba in a runoff in the LDP’s leadership election last month, Takaichi, a former economic security minister, received the most votes from ordinary party members and ...

Hours before winning a vote to stay on as Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba was caught napping in parliament. But with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, he needs to wake up fast.

An executive of the LDP faction once headed by Ishiba said that if Takaichi wins, “it likely would mean the continuation of an Abe puppet government.” In the meantime, the faction headed by ...

but his veteran rivals Shigeru Ishiba and Sanae Takaichi are the ones pushing policies that could rock the boat diplomatically. Japan PM candidate Koizumi talks of change, but rivals could alter ...

Markets were initially unnerved by the unexpected victory of Shigeru Ishiba in the run-off with Sanae Takaichi to become the next leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Japan’s next ...

A genetic regulator of tomato sweetness has been identified through comparison of wild and domesticated varieties of the plant. Genetically engineering tomatoes to alter this gene increases sugar ...

Trump’s Pentagon pick was flagged as a possible ‘Insider Threat’ in the National Guard Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the ...