With a strong (and resoundingly consolidated) mandate, Takaichi is now making moves to revise Japan’s Constitution, and ...

The conservative Prime Minister’s gamble seems to have paid off.

In Japan, women remain significantly underrepresented in politics, and only a handful of expectant mothers have run for ...

In Taipei, by contrast, the result will be seen as reassuring. Takaichi has been more explicit than many predecessors about the strategic importance of Taiwan, and her electoral mandate increases the ...

Improving living standards in a country with a rapidly shrinking workforce and ageing population will test Prime Minister ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is seeking to leverage her popularity to help her party win Sunday’s snap election as ...

After inheriting a party in crisis, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi led her LDP to a thumping snap-election win — but ...

Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral victory, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she ...

Such parties remain small: the biggest is the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin), with 34 seats in the 465-member lower chamber. Yet they have been able to wield disproportionate influence, thanks in part ...

Japan offers a stronger valuation setup than U.S. equities, with cheaper multiples and a higher equity risk premium.

Japan enters 2026 confronting a convergence of political, economic and demographic pressures that mark a decisive shift in its post-war governance model. The 2024 Lower House and 2025 Upper House ...

The WisdomTree Japan SmallCap Dividend Fund ETF is off to a strong start in 2026 as investors rotate into cheaper small-cap ...