As pressure mounts on Takaichi to visit Yasukuni as leader, analysts warn such a move could embolden the far-right and strain ...

Sanae Takaichi, a foreign policy hawk who is vying to become Japan’s next prime minister, opted not to pray at a shrine in Tokyo that some Asian countries see as glorifying Japan’s wartime past, ahead ...

Sanae Takaichi, who calls herself Japan's Margaret Thatcher, stitched up a late night deal to secure her appointment as PM.

Relations have suffered over issues related to Japan’s 1910 to 1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula. Read more at ...

The new head of Japan's ruling party Sanae Takaichi avoided visiting a controversial Tokyo war shrine on Oct. 17, as political wrangling intensifies over her bid to become prime minister. Takaichi ...

GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrived in South Korea on Thursday for a much-awaited summit meeting with President Lee Jae Myung on the margins of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sparked global outrage when he went to the controversial Yasukuni shrine on Thursday, aggravating recent tensions with China and South Korea by visiting burial ...