Dilhan C. Fernando, Chairman of Dilmah Tea explains the danger of 2026 being the toughest year is not only to growers; this ...

Sake breweries across Japan are struggling to secure funds to purchase "sakamai," rice used for sake production, as its price has risen sharply. Prices of sake rice have been soaring in line with the ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, are seen winning at least 310 ...

Centrist Reform Alliance co-chief Yoshihiko Noda suggested Sunday that he may step down from the leadership post following ...

Ken Hirata, a 58-year-old former vice governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, has won the gubernatorial election in the southwestern Japan prefecture, defeating incumbent Kengo Oishi and another candidate.

Heavyweight candidates from the opposition Centrist Reform Alliance lost their constituency races in Sunday's election for the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of Japan's ...

A Jiji Press exit poll for Sunday's House of Representatives election found that 25.0 pct of voters who do not back a particular party cast their proportional representation ballots for the ruling ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is seen winning over 310 seats in the House of Representatives in Sunday's election, controlling two-thirds of the all-important lower chamber of parliament.

The opposition Democratic Party for the People has rejected the possibility of joining Japan's governing coalition, after the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party secured a standalone majority in ...

Following is a party-by-party breakdown of seats won in Sunday's election for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan's parliament, as of 1 a.m. Monday, with figures in parentheses sh ...

Voter turnout in Japan's general election on Sunday is estimated at about 55.68 pct, according to a Jiji Press tally. The latest turnout is likely to have exceeded the 53.85 pct marked in the previous ...

A Jiji Press exit poll has found that 42.7 pct of respondents used information on social media and video-sharing sites when deciding which party to vote for in Japan's House of Representatives ...