TOKYO, March 4, 2025 — Japan’s political landscape is in flux. The once-dominant LDP is weakening, opposition parties are gaining ground, and voter behavior is shifting. What does this mean for the ...

Trust in Japan's parliamentary politics is wavering. Politicians have been unable to present solutions to social issues, and the people are disappointed that their will is not being reflected.

Mr. Schmidt is a former chief executive and chairman of Google. Mr. Sorota is Mr. Schmidt’s head of research. Albania is the first country to take a real step toward “algocracy”: government by ...

Democracy is not a gift, nor a given; it is the hard-earned result of generations of struggle, sacrifice, and resistance. That is why I believe democratic ideals and institutions must be fiercely ...

TOKYO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stressed the importance of free trade and multilateralism and decried threats against democracy as he and Japan ‘s Prime Minister Shigeru ...

President Trump has announced a trade deal with Japan after months of negotiations. Japan agreed to open up its economy to more U.S. imports and invest $550 billion in the U.S. As part of the deal, ...

This opinion article represents the views of its author, not those of Global South World . Modernisation is a mission for almost every African nation. It’s a process which has many facets and no ...

The authors are political scientists who study how democracies come to an end. How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...

The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Government of Japan, represented by the Cabinet Office of Japan for the purposes of ...

Politicians have discussed the need for open government for centuries with questionable results. At OpenUK’s State of Open Conference, Lord Nat Wei of Shoreditch in the UK Government's upper chamber, ...