An evolving geopolitical landscape pushing Japan into untested waters ... However, a weak political leadership group — coupled with the traditional sensitivity around the issue and the emergence ...

For most of the last seventy years, Japan’s political parties have been at odds over the constitution, making revision impossible. The conservatives in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ...

In anticipation of the upcoming House of Councillors election, set to be held by July, political parties in Japan are ...

Japan marked its 78th Constitution Memorial Day on May 3 as the post-World War II international order is shaken to its core ...

Recent deliberations surrounding the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) highlight the need ... which criticized the move as political interference in academic freedom. The panel's report proposes ...

A system must be swiftly ... banning corporate and organizational political donations. Opposition parties, such as the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, have called for a ban, but the ...

More recently, uncertainty around Japanese politics and the announcement of a snap general election exacerbated this volatility. We spoke to Masaki Taketsume, portfolio manager of Schroder Japan Trust ...

Japan has seen this move before ... Moreover, this proposal—by creating a better-functioning political system—will enable parties to push through broader economic and social reforms in ...

Researchers analyzed Twitter data and conducted online experiments to explore how illiberal pro-China narratives surrounding the 2019 Hong Kong protests spread across Japan's political divides ...