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 ...

Since the race kicked off on Oct. 15, former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi has crisscrossed the country to give stump speeches on behalf of many candidates. While Ishiba and the party ...

Here are some candidates in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition who might be waiting in the wings if Ishiba is ousted. Sanae Takaichi Takaichi narrowly lost against Ishiba in ...

Domestic stability enabled Japan to take on an international leadership role. Those days may be over. The post A Weakened ...

In a global year of elections, Japan’s long-serving Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has suffered its second-worst result on ...

Such a fragile government will inevitably leave Mr Ishiba vulnerable to a leadership challenge from within his own party. Waiting in the wings is Sanae Takaichi, the preferred choice from the ...

In the final round of voting former Defense Minister Ishiba Shigeru bested Takaichi Sanae, the Economic Security Minister and a darling of the right wing of the LDP. Takaichi came as close to becoming ...

There also aren’t many great candidates waiting in the wings. Sanae Takaichi, who Ishiba beat in the runoff election last month, is divisive. Shinjiro Koizumi, the third leading candidate in ...

Ishiba only narrowly won the party leadership over his ultra-conservative rival Sanae Takaichi, a nationalist who has criticised the country’s steadily improving ties with South Korea in recent ...

It is the first time since 2009 that the Liberal Democratic Party has lost its parliamentary majority. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday signaled that he intends to continue running ...

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 ...