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New political party in Japan

Former House of Representatives lawmaker Kazuhiro Haraguchi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 24, 2026, announcing he will launch a new political party ahead of a general election on Feb. 8.

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Taku Yamamoto (front), a former House of Representatives lawmaker, heads to a conferment ceremony to receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2025. The honoree, whose real surname is Takaichi, is the husband of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Taku Yamamoto (3rd from L), a former House of Representatives lawmaker, is conferred the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan's Emperor Naruhito during a ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2025. The honoree, whose real surname is Takaichi, is the husband of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (2nd from L). (Pool photo)

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Israeli Military Says Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah Killed

File photo - In this photo made available by Al-Mustaqbal newspaper, Lebanese lawmaker Saad Hariri, left, son of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, middle, pray side by side before the grave of Rafik Hariri in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 3, 2006. The Israeli military claims that Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hezbollah, was killed in Friday’s airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah has not yet commented. Photo by Michael Dorhn/ABACAPRESS.COM.

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Israeli Military Says Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah Killed

File photo - In this photo made available by Al-Mustaqbal newspaper, Lebanese lawmaker Saad Hariri, left, son of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, pray side by side before the grave of Rafik Hariri in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 3, 2006. The Israeli military claims that Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hezbollah, was killed in Friday’s airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah has not yet commented. Photo by Michael Dorhn/ABACAPRESS.COM.

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Candidates at joint event in Japan's main opposition leadership race

Candidates contesting the leadership race of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, (from L) former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, first-term lower house lawmaker Harumi Yoshida, the party's leader, Kenta Izumi, and former leader, Yukio Edano, hold up each other's hands during a joint campaign event in Sapporo on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Sept. 16, 2024, ahead of the Sept. 23 election.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

Former House of Councillors lawmaker Renho concedes defeat in the Tokyo gubernatorial election in the capital on July 7, 2024.

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Campaign for Tokyo gubernatorial election

Former House of Councillors lawmaker Renho makes a stump speech in Tokyo's Ginza district on June 30, 2024, during her campaign for the July 7 gubernatorial election in the Japanese capital.

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Campaign for Tokyo gubernatorial election

Former House of Councillors lawmaker Renho makes a stump speech in Tokyo's Ginza district on June 30, 2024, during her campaign for the July 7 gubernatorial election in the Japanese capital.

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Campaign for Tokyo gubernatorial election

Former House of Councillors lawmaker Renho makes a speech in Tokyo on June 22, 2024, during her campaign for the July 7 gubernatorial election in the Japanese capital.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election candidates

(From L) Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker and Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, pose for photos before a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.(Kyodo)

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Tokyo governor race begins

Former House of Councillors lawmaker Renho makes her first stump speech in Tokyo on June 20, 2024, as official campaigning for the July 7 gubernatorial election in the Japanese capital began the same day.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election candidates

(From L) Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker and Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, attend a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election candidates

(From L) Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker and Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, attend a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election candidates

(From L) Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker and Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, pose for photos before a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election candidates

(From L) Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker and Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, pose for photos before a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.

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Japan's top government spokesman resigns

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Japanese lawmaker Hirokazu Matsuno attends a press conference at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, during which he said that he has submitted a letter of resignation as chief Cabinet secretary in response to a political fundraising scandal involving Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers belonging to the party faction previously led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he also belongs to. (Kyodo)

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Japanese internal affairs minister Suzuki resigns

Japanese lawmaker Junji Suzuki (C) speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, after submitting his resignation as internal affairs minister amid a political fund scandal involving lawmakers belonging to Liberal Democratic Party's faction previously led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Japanese farm minister Miyashita resigns

Japanese lawmaker Ichiro Miyashita (C) speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, after submitting his resignation as farm minister amid a political fund scandal involving lawmakers belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party faction previously led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Miyashita, who belongs to the faction, denied his involvement in the scandal.

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Japanese farm minister Miyashita resigns

Japanese lawmaker Ichiro Miyashita (C) speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, after submitting his resignation as farm minister amid a political fund scandal involving lawmakers belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party faction previously led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Miyashita, who belongs to the faction, denied his involvement in the scandal.

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Japan's top government spokesman resigns

Japanese lawmaker Hirokazu Matsuno attends a press conference at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, during which he said that he has submitted a letter of resignation as chief Cabinet secretary in response to a political fundraising scandal involving Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers belonging to the party faction previously led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he also belongs to.

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Israeli PM, opposition leader agree to form "emergency unity gov't"

STORY: Israeli PM, opposition leader agree to form "emergency unity gov't" DATELINE: Oct. 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of IDF activities in Gaza 2. various of IDF strikes in Gaza 3. various of striking of the targets by the IDF STORYLINE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, an opposition leader and former defense minister, announced on Wednesday in a joint statement the formation of "an emergency unity government" and a war cabinet. The move brings Gantz's centrist party of National Unity to sit together with Netanyahu's ultranationalist-religious coalition government. Under the agreement, the war cabinet will consist of three members: Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Gantz, who was also a former chief of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Gadi Eizenkot, a lawmaker with the National Unity, also a former IDF chief, will act as an observer. Netanyahu agreed not to advance any bills unrelated to the o

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Japan's ex-House of Councillors President Ogi dies at 89

Japan's former House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi (background) presides at the upper house plenary session in the Diet Building in Tokyo in August 2004 as then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses the upper house. The actress-turned-lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, whose real name was Hiroko Hayashi, died of cancer on March 9, 2023, at age 89.

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Japan's ex-House of Councillors President Ogi dies at 89

Photo taken in November 2010 in Tokyo shows Japan's former House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi. The actress-turned-lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, whose real name was Hiroko Hayashi, died of cancer on March 9, 2023, at age 89.

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Farewell service held for Japan wrestling icon

Photo taken on March 7, 2023, shows former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori attending a service to bid farewell to Japanese professional wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki, held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo with about 7,000 people in attendance. Inoki, who took on world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in 1976, was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2010.

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CHINA-YUNNAN-QUJING-FORMER MIGRANT WORKER-LAWMAKER (CN)

(230220) -- KUNMING, Feb. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Haibo (R), deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), talks with a migrant worker who prepares to depart from an industrial park in Qilin District of Qujing, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 11, 2023. TO GO WITH "Profile: Former migrant worker now a lawmaker helping rural laborers" (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-QUJING-FORMER MIGRANT WORKER-LAWMAKER (CN)

(230220) -- KUNMING, Feb. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Haibo (1st R), deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), talks with workers at a planting base in Malong District of Qujing, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 11, 2023. TO GO WITH "Profile: Former migrant worker now a lawmaker helping rural laborers" (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-QUJING-FORMER MIGRANT WORKER-LAWMAKER (CN)

(230220) -- KUNMING, Feb. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Haibo, deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), waves to migrant workers who prepare to depart from an industrial park in Qilin District of Qujing, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 12, 2023. TO GO WITH "Profile: Former migrant worker now a lawmaker helping rural laborers" (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-QUJING-FORMER MIGRANT WORKER-LAWMAKER (CN)

(230220) -- KUNMING, Feb. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Haibo (R), deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), explains employment policies via live streaming at an industrial park in Qilin District of Qujing, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 11, 2023. TO GO WITH "Profile: Former migrant worker now a lawmaker helping rural laborers" (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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Pro-Thaksin lawmaker Jatuporn blasts Abhisit

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai lawmaker Jatuporn Promphan, a senior member of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, speaks during an interview in Bangkok on Aug. 5, 2010. Jatuporn, a supporter of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, said reconciliation efforts by the government led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva are a publicity stunt to evade criticism from inside and outside of the country.

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Ex-Diet member lawmaker Ishihara at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Former Diet member Shintaro Ishihara smiles during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2014, two days after failing to retain his seat in the House of Representatives election and retiring from politics.

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Okinawa governor race begins

NANJO, Japan - Former upper house lawmaker Shokichi Kina, 66, who is running for governor of Okinawa, makes a speech in Nanjo, a city in Japan's southernmost prefecture on Oct. 30, 2014, the first day of official campaigning for a closely watched election on Nov. 16, in which the controversial transfer of a key U.S. military base will take center stage.

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Yasukuni Shrine on anniv. of end of WWII

TOKYO, Japan - Shinjiro Koizumi, a lawmaker of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a son of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, visits the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2014, the 69th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. His father's repeated visits to the shrine chilled relations between Tokyo and Beijing.

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Opposition DPJ lawmaker supports collective self-defense

WASHINGTON, United States - Former Japanese Vice Defense Minister Akihisa Nagashima of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) speaks at a U.S. think-tank symposium in Washington on July 22, 2014, in which he expressed support for the Cabinet's approval earlier in the month of a policy to allow the exercise of the right to collective self-defense.

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Candidate supporting nuclear phaseout elected Shiga governor

OTSU, Japan - Former lawmaker Taizo Mikazuki (C) celebrates in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on July 13, 2014, after winning the Shiga gubernatorial election to succeed incumbent Gov. Yukiko Kada (L). Mikazuki, 43, a former Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker who supports phasing out nuclear power, won a three-way race, beating a candidate backed by the ruling parties by a narrow margin.

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Candidate supporting nuclear phaseout elected Shiga governor

OTSU, Japan - Former lawmaker Taizo Mikazuki (R) receives flowers from Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on July 13, 2014, after winning the Shiga gubernatorial election to succeed her. Mikazuki, 43, a former Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker who supports phasing out nuclear power, won a three-way race, beating a candidate backed by the ruling parties by a narrow margin.

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Tokyo gubernatorial candidate

TOKYO, Japan - Former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami (L) shakes hands with former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2014, after Tamogami announced his candidacy in the Feb. 9 Tokyo gubernatorial election. Ishihara, now a House of Representatives lawmaker, attended the press conference to express his "personal" support for Tamogami.

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N. Korea purges leader's uncle

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Jang Song Thaek (2nd from R), uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, holding a meeting with Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki (far L), and Kenshiro Matsunami (far R), a former Japanese lawmaker, in Pyongyang on Nov. 6, 2013. North Korea said Dec. 9 that Jang, widely seen as the second most powerful figure in the country after Kim, has been stripped of all his posts for committing "anti-party" and "counter-revolutionary factional acts."

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Japanese lawmaker meets top aide of N. Korean leader

PYONGYANG, North Korea - (From L) Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki, Jang Song Thaek, uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a top aide, and Kenshiro Matsunami, a former Japanese lawmaker, hold a meeting at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Nov. 6, 2013.

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Office for Japan-N. Korea sports exchange

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ma Chol Su (L), a former director of Asian affairs at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, and Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki shake hands after they signed an agreement on the opening of an office to facilitate exchanges between Japan and North Korea through sports in Pyongyang on Nov. 4, 2013. Ma serves as secretary general of a friendship association between the two countries.

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Ex-PM Noda in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese opposition lawmaker and former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda delivers a speech in Washington on Oct. 1, 2013. Noda criticized current leader Shinzo Abe's latest economic stimulus program as "pork-barrel" money being spent before the planned sales tax hike.

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Japan lawmaker in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui (L) and Shinjiro Koizumi, a lawmaker of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shake hands in Taipei on Sept. 10, 2013. Koizumi, son of former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, leads a delegation of the party's junior members.

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Imelda Marcos

MANILA, Philippines - Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, known for her flamboyance and wide collection of shoes, speaks to Kyodo News at her father's ancestral residence in Manila City on Jan. 31, 2013. The 83-year-old incumbent lawmaker shared her personal experiences during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines up to World War II in the 1940s, her encounters with Japanese officials during her husband's reign from the 1960s up to the early 1980s, and her continuing admiration for the Japanese people and their culture.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Candidates for the Tokyo gubernatorial election -- (from L) Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a former governor of adjacent Kanagawa Prefecture, Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose and Takashi Sasagawa, a retired lawmaker who formerly headed the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's General Council -- hold a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Candidates for the Tokyo gubernatorial election -- (from L) Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a former governor of adjacent Kanagawa Prefecture, Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose and Takashi Sasagawa, a retired lawmaker who formerly headed the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's General Council -- hold a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Candidates for the Tokyo gubernatorial election -- (from L) Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a former governor of adjacent Kanagawa Prefecture, Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose and Takashi Sasagawa, a retired lawmaker who formerly headed the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party's General Council -- join hands at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2012, before official campaigning for the Dec. 16 election begins the following day.

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Ex-PM Hatoyama may not run in election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan answers reporters' questions at his home in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2012, after a senior DPJ lawmaker said Hatoyama may not run in the Dec. 16, 2012, House of Representatives election.

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Japan, N. Korea sports exchange

PYONGYANG, North Korea - (from L in front) Former Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki, Jang Song Thaek, vice chairman of North Korea's National Defense Commission, and Nippon Sport Science University board director Kenshiro Matsunami meet before a soccer game between Japanese and North Korean students in Pyongyang on Nov. 14, 2012.

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Japan, N. Korea sports exchange

PYONGYANG, North Korea - (from L in front row) Former Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki, Jang Song Thaek, vice chairman of North Korea's National Defense Commission, and Nippon Sport Science University board director Kenshiro Matsunami watch a soccer game between Japanese and North Korean students in Pyongyang on Nov. 14, 2012.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Former lawmaker Takashi Sasagawa holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2012, to declare his candidacy for the Dec. 16, 2012, Tokyo gubernatorial election, following Shintaro Ishihara's resignation from the post.