They are protesting the way she was chosen. Fukuda was picked as the LDP’s candidate for the Tokyo No. 18 district through a women-only recruitment campaign in March that received 36 applications.

Hiroshi Moriyama, the No. 2 figure in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine on Thursday ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reiterated Friday his intention to stay on as Japan's leader, defying calls to step down as the ...

He was banned from holding any senior party post for a year in April for his involvement in the LDP's slush funds scandal. However, he has remained as head of the Tokyo chapter as the punishment ...

The Tokyo Summary Court on Friday fined a policy secretary of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda for violating ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War Two defeat on Friday, with at least one cabinet minister ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured its lowest number of seats ever in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election on June 22. The party fell from being the largest faction in the assembly ...

Tokyo prosecutors on Aug. 15 filed a summary indictment against an aide of Koichi Hagiuda, former chairman of the ruling ...

Experts associate the rise of the ultra-nationalist Sanseito party with a crisis of confidence after decades of economic ...

TOKYO, July 4 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and allies failed to win outright a local election in Tokyo on Sunday that was seen as a key test ...

On July 2, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a historic defeat in the Tokyo metropolitan elections. Though on one level, the election was about how Tokyoites ...

Public broadcaster NHK said the LDP had won 33 seats in Tokyo's 127-member assembly, just ahead of Tokyo Citizens First, the party of Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, with 31 seats.