Japan’s Taisho era promised greater democracy, but militarism soon began to take hold. In Part 2 of this series, we explore the factors that led to the decline of civilian government and the rise of ...

In fact, Japanese history is full of strife and rebellion, and Japan was the first independent Asian country with a multi-party system. Its early postwar democracy was so unruly, with mass ...

This fact has made the of parliamentary democracy a painfully task in Japan. Herein lies, we believe, problem of Japanese politics today, and whenever we turn to the analysis of events.

and it has political analysts asking whether Japan's democracy is starting to crumble. Japanese think tank The Genron NPO surveyed 1,000 people in September, across a spectrum of age and gender ...

The lesson begins with a brief review of Japanese history from 1868 to 1926. Students are then engaged in crafting preliminary definitions of national, polity, constitutional, democracy, imperial, and ...

And would Japanese citizens and politicians have the guts to put their lives on the line to protect democracy? Under martial law in South Korea, all political activities, including rallies and ...

Democracy, it is often heard these days, is in crisis. The election of Donald Trump and news of political turmoil in many other democracies have created the impression that liberal democracy is ...

TOKYO — Japanese police said Friday they have arrested a Canadian national on suspicion of smuggling into Japan hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine hidden inside large industrial machinery ...

Wagner: I strongly became interested in the relationship between Japan’s democracy and emperor, when I worked as a Tokyo-based correspondent of a German magazine for a total of nearly 20 years ...

REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq/File Photo Image: Reuters/Stephanie Lecocq LONDON Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world ...