Join ASPI for a panel discussion assessing what lies ahead for the alliance and how the two governments will continue to ...

The U.S. trade deal will further support improving economic fundamentals in Japan, which underpin our constructive equity positioning on the country. As we highlighted in our analysis last month, ...

Japan’s long-standing coalition cracked when Komeito chose its identity over power, walking out rather than be tainted by the ...

The growing accessibility of online fund-raising tools, including crowdfunding, has led Japanese political parties to ...

Ishiba Shigeru last month won the race to become the next Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president, and thus the next prime minister of Japan. His ascendancy marked a major break. For more than 20 ...

Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, appears to be a modern "Iron lady" in the mold of Margaret Thatcher with all the controversy that entails. However successful her ...

“CHANGE, LDP!” runs the campaign slogan of a leadership race in Japan’s ruling party, which concludes on October 4th. The message may sound a little desperate, but that reflects a crisis in the ...

In anticipation of the upcoming House of Councillors election, set to be held by July, political parties in Japan are beginning to unveil – or at least hint at – their campaign promises. The platforms ...

Japan faces political instability, economic stagnation, and demographic headwinds, making broad investments like iShares MSCI Japan ETF unattractive despite recent market declines. The Liberal ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty. Japan’s ...

Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), speaks during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing ...

Haruo Tsukamoto, 74, is facing what he calls the hardest political choice of his life: who he should vote for to become Japan’s next prime minister, and whether he should keep backing the party he has ...