Japan ruling party sec-gen offers resignation after election debacle

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) and secretary-general Hiroshi Moriyama (L) attend a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) executive committee at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on September 2, 2025. Moriyama, the secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, later in the day offered on September 2 to resign after July's disastrous upper house election. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP)