Last week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked Japanese voters to go to the polls on October 22, the third time voters have...
Snap elections are one of the most powerful political tools at the disposal of a prime minister in a parliamentary democracy. With...
Prime Minister Abe’s visit to India last week underlined an important economic development for Japan – the enormous interest in replicating the country’s...
As Japan prepares to mark Respect for the Aged Day, the challenges posed by the nation's enormous population of over-65s have never...
Missile and nuclear tests by North Korea are met with fury and disbelief in Japan and the US; but Kim Jong Un...
If you live in Japan and turned on your TV around 6:00am last Tuesday morning, instead of the typical peppy morning news show,...
Though elected as a crusading reformer, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is showing her right-wing roots - and risking her fragile coalition -...
Japan's crime rate being so low that police are bored has become a popular meme; in reality, the police often ignore sexual...
The complex history of Yasukuni Shrine makes it an intractable problem for Japan's foreign relations; the uneasy compromise of senior politicians avoiding...
Japan lacks effective and coherent political opposition - but is it even possible to imagine what that might look like?
The LDP begins laying the ground for a bill on a deeply unpopular issue – the opening of casino resorts, which stir...
Support for the government may be falling, but the shock resignation of the Democratic Party's top leadership shows that the crisis in...