Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba denied on Wednesday he had decided to quit after a source and media reports said he planned to announce his resignation to take responsibility for a bruising upper house election defeat. Asked about media reports that he had expressed his intention to step down as early as this month, the…
Japan’s ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, is expected to lose its majority in the upper house of Parliament after Sunday’s election, according to exit polls. The coalition also lost control of the lower house in October, putting Ishiba’s government under even more pressure. Exit polls suggest that Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)…
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has led the country for most of the last seven decades, appeared to be heading toward a major defeat in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as exit polls showed voters shifting to opposition parties that included new right-wing populist groups. The vote for the less powerful Upper House of the bicameral…
Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. Takahiro Shiraishi had been sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his apartment in Zama city in…
U.S President Donald Trump formally approved Nippon Steel’s 5401.T fraught $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel X.N on Friday, capping a tumultuous 18-month effort by the companies, beset by union opposition and two national security reviews. Trump signed an executive order saying the tie-up could move forward if the companies signed an agreement with the…
Image used for representative purposes MUMBAI: Five years after a group of Indian lenders led by SBI stepped in to rescue Yes Bank, Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) will acquire a 20% stake in the private lender for Rs 13,483 crore, making it the largest shareholder. The deal, India’s biggest cross-border banking investment, marks…
After maniac Monday, Asian markets bounced back on Tuesday following a brutal global sell-off, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 surging over 6 per cent in early trade after suffering a sharp 8 per cent decline the previous day. The recovery came amid continued volatility sparked by growing fears of an international recession as the US-China trade…
In a remarkable breakthrough, a Japanese patient who had been paralyzed from the neck down for many years has learned to stand unaided once again. It was all done as part of a first-ever clinical trial which used reprogrammed stem cells to treat patients with spinal injuries, offering new hope to patients suffering from paralysis.This…
TOKYO — Twenty minutes from the Tokyo Dome sits another of Japan’s most revered ballparks, the 99-year-old Meiji Jingu Stadium, one of the few fields still in use anywhere that can claim Babe Ruth as a batter. Jingu’s home club, the Yakult Swallows, held a spring exhibition Tuesday afternoon against the Hanshin Tigers, creating a…
The results of a rare, closely watched auction in Japan that ended this week are about to be released. But there were no paintings or antique cars on the auction block. The government is selling 165,000 tons of rice — equivalent to roughly two billion bowls — from its emergency stockpile to make up for…