Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is refusing to resign, insisting he will not create a "political vacuum". This is despite a poor showing in the weekend's election.

TOKYO (AFP)): Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is a self-confessed defence geek and train-lover whose snap election gamble backfired after his Liberal Democratic Party suffered its worst ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Monday to stay in office despite his gamble of snap elections backfiring, with his party's ruling coalition falling short of a majority for the first ...

The election results are a huge blow to Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party. Japan’s longtime ruling party has lost its majority for the first time in 15 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s snap election gamble has blown up in his face. Voters meted out severe punishment to his ...

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba insisted on Monday (Oct 28) that he would stay in office even after his ruling coalition fell short of a majority in parliamentary elections.

“Fortunately, the weather gods were on our side,” he added. Ishiba Shigeru, Japan’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, on his first day back in office, was understandably too busy to attend ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba who assumed the office last month called the snap polls but the move backfired as his LDP remained marred in the political funding corruption scandal. It was the same ...

Japan PM Shigeru Ishiba vows to stay, despite election flop 10/28/2024 October 28, 2024 Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's gamble on snap elections has backfired.

With all but 20 of the 465 seats accounted for, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and longtime coalition partner, Komeito, took 209 seats in the lower house of ...

27 (UPI) --Japan's longtime ruling party appears set to be voted out of power in the lower House of the Diet following Sunday elections, which would be a blow to new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s conservative ruling party braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday’s elections amid public rage over the ...