Japan's agriculture minister, Taku Etō, resigned on May 21 just six months into his term, following a public backlash to his ...

One front-runner for that position is Japanese Secretary General Tarō Asō. 68-year-old Asō campaigned against Abe and Fukuda to become leader of the LDP and thereby prime minister in 2006 and 2007.

Self-proclaimed manga fan Tarō Asō helps establish "'Nobel Prize' of Manga" In a press conference following a meeting of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's cabinet on Tuesday morning, Japanese Foreign ...

The lawmaker with the highest reported assets, at ¥601.5 million, is former Prime Minister Asō Tarō of the Liberal Democratic Party, followed closely by Aisawa Ichirō, also of the LDP, whose ...

Yamamoto Taku, the lower house member collecting signatures to 'recall' Asō by forcing an early party election, has stepped up his effort in the hope of collecting the requisite 216 signatures (half ...

the Princess is the third daughter and youngest child of Takakichi Asō, and the sister of former prime minister, Tarō Asō. Descended from Japanese nobility in her own right, she married Prince ...

Japan will begin to pay 100,000 yen (about $ 930) in financial aid to each citizen in May, Tarō Asō, the country's deputy prime minister and finance minister, told a news conference in Tokyo.

The board's international members include UAE's National Security Advisor Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Tarō Asō, Saudi Space Agency Chairman Prince Sultan bin ...