Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Resigns After Election Defeats

By Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Chief International CorrespondentTOKYO (Worthy News) – Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation Sunday after less than a year in office, following two crushing parliamentary defeats that cost his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) its coalition majority in both chambers.Ishiba, 68, said he chose to step down after concluding tariff negotiations with the United States, which he described as a “national crisis.” The two nations signed a memora