Japan has no national elections scheduled in 2018, but there is one highly consequential vote on the calendar – the LDP’s internal...
For the “Abe Children”, those members of the LDP who have been elected under the leadership of Shinzo Abe, the Moritomo Gakuen scandal...
After smoldering for over a year, the Moritomo Gakuen scandal this week ignited into a conflagration that may swallow the careers of...
Revising Japan’s post-war constitution has been a goal of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for decades, but for most of that time...
Fukushiro Nukaga, the leader of the third-largest faction in the LDP, is to step down by mid-March to make way for new...
2017 was a tumultuous year for Japan’s political opposition. The Democratic Party all but collapsed after newly-elected leader Seiji Maehara dramatically announced...
Even torrential typhoon rain couldn’t entirely dampen the Halloween spirit in Japan last weekend. Some costumes undoubtedly got soaked, but the street...
A fifth election victory for Shinzo Abe doesn't change the obstacles which stand in the way of constitutional revision or other major...
With the campaign for the 2017 House of Representatives election now firmly behind us – it ended sharply at midnight on Saturday,...
With only days to go before Japan's 2017 General Election, we assess the state of the parties and how the election seems...
A couple of weeks ago, we ended our editorial on the forthcoming snap election with a line that came, we confess, from...
Japan’s style of election campaigning is often commented upon – usually somewhat disparagingly – by foreign visitors to and residents of the...
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