Parliament will be dissolved on January 23rd and the election will be held on February 8th. That makes it the shortest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister, during a party leaders' debate at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, in ...

Japan has sent an envoy to China. They want to ease a disagreement over Taiwan, which comes early in the administration of Japan's first female prime minister. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports. ANTHONY KUHN ...

(CNN) — Japan’s prime minister has joined more than 50 of her fellow female legislators to push for more ladies’ toilets in parliament, saying recent increases in women’s representation have led to ...