Sydney | Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced he is resigning ahead of a likely no-confidence vote on his leadership, just as the world’s fourth-largest economy grapples with new US tariffs on its auto industry and soaring inflation bites into household budgets.

At a press conference in Tokyo on Sunday night, Ishiba said he has decided to quit to avoid a damaging split in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has been in power for most of the last 60 years. Loading...

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