Japanese politics is different in many ways, but in one, it’s having what appears to be an analogous moment: “Honestly ...

Japan's shaky ruling coalition is likely to lose control of the upper house, exit polls showed after Sunday's (July 20) election, potentially heralding political turmoil as a tariff deadline with ...

Kodama says he has stayed in the house - located in a quiet residential area in Chiba near Tokyo - from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. nearly 20 times, monitoring with four video cameras, a thermal camera, an ...

EDITORIAL. The ruling coalition's loss of a majority in the House of Councillors in the July 20 elections and the breakthrough of the ultra-conservative Sanseito party have triggered an unprecedented ...

Japan's ruling coalition is poised to lose its majority in the upper house, exit polls showed after Sunday's election, weakening Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's grip on power and heralding ...

As survivors of these weapons, we all agree that they can never be used again. So, when we hear politicians saying such ...

In a system with many small parties, even minor players can hold the balance of power in forming coalitions.

Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its partner Komeito won around 41 of the 125 upper house seats contested on Sunday, short of the 50 needed to retain a majority, Nippon TV and TBS ...

Yet small-scale invention sometimes slips through. In West London's Bayswater conservation area, where uniform facades and historical preservation rules are the norm, you'll find the Gap House.