Japan

Japan’s New Government

Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of Japan’s ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) poses in the party leader’s office after the LDP leadership election.
10.10.2024

On October 1, Shigeru Ishiba was sworn in as Japan’s new prime minister. The government resigned in full and the new head immediately started forming his cabinet. These changes were expected, since the day before Ishiba won the election of the head of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which, along with the Komeito party, has a majority in both houses of parliament.

Trump is calm, Abe is concerned

28. May 2019 - 14:01
The results of the visit of the US leader to Japan

During his four-day visit in Tokyo, which started with golf and a sumo tournament and continued Monday with a formal visit to Japan's new Emperor and empress, Donald Trump discussed several issues

21st-Century Geopolitics Of Japan

20.10.2017

Japan, as the Asian geographic analogue of Great Britain, is a strategic outlier in the Eurasian supercontinent by virtue of its location, which has in turn greatly influenced its political decisions across the centuries and shaped it into an hist