Speculation grows that a vulnerable Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will call a Lower House election in October to keep the opposition camp in disarray while new parties emerge.
Public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet rebounded 6.7 percentage points in August, to 36.6 percent, after falling below 30 percent the previous month, a Jiji Press survey revealed Thursday. The higher approval rating is believed to be partly due to Abe's Aug. 3 ...
Seiko Noda, the new minister of internal affairs and communications, says she is ready to challenge Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Liberal Democratic Party's next leadership election in September 2018. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Noda said that she will "certainly run," but as a ...
In shake-up, embattled prime minister taps veterans as part of effort to avoid further gaffes, scandals.
Newly appointed Foreign Minister Taro Kono is known as an outspoken, reform-minded politician unafraid of questioning the party line. Like Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kono is a political blue blood. His father, Yohei, also served as foreign minister, and is known for a landmark 1993 ...
Thursday’s reshuffle is also expected to see foreign minister Fumio Kishida appointed to a key Liberal Democratic Party post.
He's young, good-looking and the media call him "Japan's Macron," so it is little surprise that lawmakers say Shinjiro Koizumi may be offered a post when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffles his Cabinet next month in a bid to revive his public support, which ...
A poll conducted just days before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to be grilled in the Diet over a suspected scandal finds his support rating has dropped 10 points to 26 percent, the lowest since he took office in 2012
Low-key Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida emerges as a potential prospect to replace brash Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next year.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suggested he will retain Fumio Kishida as foreign minister in the Cabinet reshuffle planned for early next month, sources in the government and ruling party said Friday. Kishida, viewed as the front-runner to succeed Abe as Liberal Democratic Party president ...
Unpopular policies and a slew of scandals triggered a slide in public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that led to a heavy election defeat. That was in 2007, when he abruptly resigned, citing health issues, after losing the Upper House of the Diet. A ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is rumored to be planning a Cabinet reshuffle next month but is expected to retain his key ministers.
