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...
The disintegration of the Democratic Party threatened to end Japan's fragile liberal political alliance - but the CDP offers hope for its...
A couple of weeks ago, we ended our editorial on the forthcoming snap election with a line that came, we confess, from...
The main parties in Japan's 2017 Election have quite different approaches to solving the country's looming demographic problem; which do voters prefer?
Japan’s style of election campaigning is often commented upon – usually somewhat disparagingly – by foreign visitors to and residents of the...
When Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike unveiled her new Kibō no Tō (“Party of Hope”) on September 27, there was immediate buzz about...
With this month’s snap election in Japan now set to feature a showdown between two major conservative parties, the Asia-Pacific region is...
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...
It has been over a month since Prime Minister Shinzō Abe reshuffled his cabinet – a dramatic month for Japan’s political environment,...