Japanese politics

The approval rating for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's newly reshuffled cabinet rose to 53 percent in a Kyodo News poll, while many respondents said a planned temporary consumption tax cut would have little effect on their daily lives amid...

Japan's main opposition party, the Centrist Reform Alliance, formalized its plan to split on Wednesday, with its members to leave based on their prior affiliations to its two founding parties, its head Junya Ogawa said, after full merger talks...