Japan's opposition Democratic Party of Japan fulfilled predictions by winning a landslide victory over the moribund ruling party. The change in government is historic: It is only the second time in 50 ...

The Democratic Party of Japan's (DPJ) landslide victory in August served as a watershed moment in the country's electoral politics. Japan, a parliamentary democracy, had been dominated by the Liberal ...

No two candidates could present such a different image for the identity of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The citizen activist-turned-bureaucratic reformer-turned-party president has been ...

Japan stands on the threshold of change as the Aug 30 election to its Lower House of Parliament is expected to see the end of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule for just the second time in more than ...

The DPJ’s policy switch on an FTA with the United States only serves to confirm that it prioritises farm votes over economic reform. Last week, DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama declared that the party had ...

The agreement between the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and Japan Innovation Party (JIP) to merge into a single party was prompted by their leaders' fears that they would lose any ...

Japan's opposition carried off a stunning victory in today's general election, crushing the ruling party and raising hopes of a significant shift in policy after more than half a century of almost ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to power with a landslide win on Sunday, December 16, after just three years and three months in opposition. The party won 294 seats (out of 480 total) ...

Credit: U.S. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Cohen A. Young Acting party leader Katsuya Okada was elected president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in an intraparty election last Sunday.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At a street-corner speech in Japan’s northern industrial town of Muroran ahead of last month’s election, Miyuki ...

During its two years in power, the Democratic Party of Japan has sought to eradicate the LDP-era relationship between senior politicians and the bureaucracy. But excluding civil servants from the ...

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up With a week to go, the leadership race of Japan’s ruling party still appears to be neck and neck. A clear surge of support for one of the candidates ...