Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is leading in support from fellow lawmakers in Japan’s ruling party leadership ...

Good looks, a knack for public speaking and an illustrious surname — it is no wonder that Shinjiro Koizumi has been at the ...

The pledge by 43-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, the youngest candidate in the running to be Japan's next prime minister, to hold ...

An image of former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi bowing his head at the Yasukuni shrine to Japan's war dead has ...

TOKYO – Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is leading in support from fellow lawmakers in Japan’s ruling party ...

Ahead of Friday's voting, Koizumi, 43, was backed by over 50 LDP lawmakers, according to the survey of LDP lawmakers and ...

TOKYO -- The ruling party election likely to choose Japan's next prime minister is shaping up to be a three-way race among ...

Japan's former Environment Minister and leading prime ministerial candidate Shinjiro Koizumi said he would respect the ...

The frontrunners in the race to become Japan’s next prime minister clashed over when to call a Lower House election if they ...

Japan will have a new leader after outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing Liberal Democratic Party holds a vote on ...

Japan's new prime minister will be formally elected by parliament on October 1 following next week's leadership contest, a ...

TOKYO -- Shigeru Ishiba, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, has taken the lead from former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi in the latest Nikkei opinion poll asking who ...