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 ...

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.

A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the left is a replica of a torture box with nails in which an inmate was placed and shaken to inflict pain. On the right ...

Extra History Japanese Militarism & the Fall of Taisho Democracy Posted: January 29, 2025 | Last updated: January 29, 2025 Japan’s Taisho era promised greater democracy, but militarism soon ...

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 ...