Internal rivals and a resurgent nationalist right are jeopardising Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's already precarious position With his grasp on power slipping, Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to remain in office despite a stinging electoral rebuke that plunged his ruling coalition into fresh turmoil.

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Exit polls suggest Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition is likely to lose a majority its majority in the smaller of Japan’s two parliamentary houses in a key election.

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Shigeru Ishiba likes the nitty gritty of policy and making military models, but his dream job as Japanese prime minister looked at risk of coming unstuck on Sunday.Seen as a safe pair of hands, he won the party leadership in September,

The yen climbed across the board on Monday after beleaguered Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed to hang on as leader even though his ruling coalition lost its majority in Sunday's upper house elections,

WASHINGTON -- The U.S.-Japan alliance has entered a period of uncertainty, American think tank analysts say, after Sunday's upper house Diet election resulted in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party having lost its majority in both legislative chambers for the first time since its founding in 1955.