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Japan's PM vows to stay on despite bruising election loss
Japan's ruling coalition has lost its majority in the country's upper house, but Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he ...
Japan risks policy paralysis after ruling coalition's upper house election loss
CNBC's Martin Soong, Chery Kang, and Kaori Enjoji discuss how the ruling coalition's defeat in Japan's upper house election ...
Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right
The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...
Japan’s Ishiba says he’ll stay in office to tackle inflation and US tariffs despite election loss
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he will stay in office to tackle challenges such as rising prices and high U.S. tariffs after a weekend election defeat left his ...
A loss for Ishiba could worsen Japan's instability in the face of US tariffs and rising prices
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday’s upper house election, and a loss could ...
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What’s Next? Japanese Voters Hand the LDP Yet Another Loss
Japan’s voters dealt Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with yet another devastating blow on ...
Japan PM says he will decide on resignation over election loss after studying US tariff deal
Ishiba had announced his intention to stay on to tackle pressing challenges, including tariff talks with US, without creating ...
Japan’s ruling coalition loses majority in upper house election
The loss is another blow to the coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who could face calls from his party to step ...
Japanese Government Bonds Anticipated Outcome of Elections
HSBC said that the directionality of JPY rates was likely to be positively correlated with the degree of policy uncertainty after Japan’s ruling coalition suffered a loss on Sunday.