Shinzo Abe told Cabinet members on Tuesday that his second-in-command, Taro Aso, would no longer be present at any meeting the prime minister attends, a government spokesman said, in a move to ...

Finance Minister Taro Aso said information disclosure ... All references to Akie Abe, wife of then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, were deleted by Finance Ministry officials. The former head of ...

That was the strategy Suga resorted to in September 2020 after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stepped down ... Longtime Finance Minister Taro Aso, who heads an LDP faction, has also thrown his backing ...

Suzuki is a member of the faction led by former Prime Minister Taro Aso, the only faction remaining within ... mainly from the faction led by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Eto was deemed ...

Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has launched a new group within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in an ...

The meeting's participants also included lawmakers who belonged to an LDP faction once led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and members of a faction led by former party Vice President Taro Aso. Des ...

Hours before winning a vote to stay on as Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba was caught napping in parliament. But with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, he needs to wake up fast.

The results of this historic election shifted the political landscape of one large and several small parties that has characterized the LDP and its opposition since former Japanese prime minister ...

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had one pressing question about a ... Also in attendance were Taro Aso, another former finance minister who serves as supreme adviser of the headquarters, and ...

The final “D” concerns the decisive leadership of Japan in the Indo-Pacific, which has been a constant feature since late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo ... sidelined: Aso Taro was demoted ...

Sunao Takao was the loyal interpreter at Shinzo Abe’s side ... said he could not comment on specific personnel. Meanwhile, Taro Aso, a senior member of Japan’s ruling party who was deputy ...

In the 2012 LDP presidential election, he led after the initial round of voting but ultimately lost to Shinzo Abe in a runoff dominated ... former Prime Minister Taro Aso of his intention on ...