Taro Aso, the vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is facing a backlash after suggesting in a campaign stump speech that bullying victims have only themselves to blame.

TAIPEI—Taro Aso, vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Japan and other countries should show they are prepared to fight China to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan ...

Former prime ministers Fumio Kishida and Taro Aso had claimed they were discussing dispatching representatives to New York, he added, but the Nobel Prize added attention to the issue. More recently, ...

Amid his ongoing campaign for the White House, former US president Donald Trump welcomed former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso to Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday. Trump, who is currently on ...

Japan’s outspoken Finance minister and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said that the Japanese government needs to make it clear that they intend to defend the Senkaku Islands from whatever ...

The prime minister suggested Finance Minister Taro Aso remain in his post and clarify exactly what happened. Opposition parties say the Abe administration bears serious responsibility for the ...

His Excellency Taro Aso, who currently serves as Japan’s minister for foreign affairs and previously served as minister for internal affairs, reviewed the current situation in East Asia, examined the ...

Citing Adolf Hitler isn't a very good way to win an argument. Lots of people try — so many, in fact, that the internet has come up with a rule for Hitler references. Godwin's Law, as it's called ...

Kishida owes his election victory to the LPD's old guard, such as former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso, who wield vast amounts of behind-the-scenes power. Allegedly the ...

They are not going to be fooled by self-interested polluters.” Prime Minister Taro Aso, a member of the ruling political party LDP, is considering a range of 6 possible 2020 emissions reduction ...

On Tuesday, Japanese finance minister Taro Aso announced that Japanese banknotes will be getting a redesign. The new notes are expected to enter circulation around 2024, the first change since 2004.

The economy has been gradually reopening since the end of May, with finance minister Taro Aso declaring that activity “seems to have hit bottom”. The benchmark Topix stock index is down 6% so ...