Japan’s Liberal Democracy Party (LDP), the ruling party in Japanese politics, is moving ahead with comprehensive regulatory ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of 10 politically active young Cambodians will visit Japan as part of the Japanese government’s support for ...

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 ...

A city of liberal ideas like labor unions, women's rights, and democracy. A city of foreign delights like chocolate and cigars. A city about to be destroyed! Buildings collapse crushing hundreds and ...

A Japanese high court has ruled that Japan’s refusal to legally recognize same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, a latest ...

Voters believe they are active participants in democracies, but the real power is concentrated in the hands of the few.

Japanese politics stands at a crossroad. At home, the LDP’s election loss last year has not just forced an end to more than a decade of stable majority rule; it has also forced unprecedented inner ...

He supported the young activists but, worried that he would be detained as a result, fled to Japan the following year. Than Swe's generation used to sing a song calling for democracy whenever they ...