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In May, Wakamono Manifest Sakutei Iinkai, a policy research group dedicated to issues relevant to people under 40, posted results of a survey in which members were asked who they wanted to lead Japan. There was no consensus, but the individual who
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A second supplementary budget for fiscal 2011 is likely to clear the Diet in late July as the opposition camp leader said Saturday that his Liberal Democratic Party will cooperate in swiftly getting it through parliament...We will cooperate, LDP
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Staff writers The Nagata-cho political hub was in turmoil Tuesday as the ruling and opposition camps failed to come to an agreement on how long to extend the Diet session, which was slated to finish Wednesday. The Democratic Party of Japan had been
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The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party plans to allow the ruling party to substantially extend the ongoing parliamentary session but only if Prime Minister Naoto Kan quits soon, LDP Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara said Sunday. Ishihara made
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Staff writer Over the decades he's been dubbed the "shadow shogun," "the destroyer" and "the backroom fixer" for his powerful influence in the political arena and penchant for shaking up governments with his "strong hand." And despite signs that his
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It appears that he has forgotten the simple fact that the DPJ came to power by beating the LDP in the August 2009 Lower House election with slogans that represented a rejection of LDP politics. Mr. Okada's call for a grand coalition is tantamount to
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Story continues below Japan once indulged in the notion that its economy was a macro version of Toyota, a name associated with innovation, quality and the nation's powerful rise from the ruins of World War II. No one is happy about the Tepco-isation
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Heads of states from a number countries of central and eastern European countries have gathered for a summit in Warsaw, Poland...President Barack Obama will be a special guest at the gathering. But the decision of organizers to invite Kosovo as an
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EU. edomir Jovanovi (Tanjug) It is the LDP's obligation to do the work nobody else in politics is able to do, he said, addressing the LDP electoral convention. "Each time, the LDP has put the interest of society before its own and formulated
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Bloomberg The Democratic Party of Japan came to power in 2009 pledging to restore vitality to a country burdened by deflation, an aging population and the world's largest debt...Prime Minister Naoto Kan's handling of the March earthquake and nuclear
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