Hong Kong’s government on Wednesday proposed a registration system that would recognize same-sex partnerships formed overseas, granting such couples more rights in the city.

Campaigning for Japan's upper house election started Thursday, with unpopular Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba fighting to ...

Of 23 countries surveyed, median of 58% of adults were dissatisfied with democracy. Pew says many are frustrated with ...

Eight leaders from Japan's main political parties engaged in heated debate on Wednesday, ahead of elections in the country's ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...

Democracy in Asia faces challenges, even where it is relatively liberal and strong, amid a global democratic recession ...

Japan's postwar politics has enabled representative democracy to take root under the current Constitution with the sovereignty of the people made the pillar of power.

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 ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has stressed the importance of free trade and multilateralism and decried threats against democracy as he and Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

President Yoon’s flawed decision plunged South Korean democracy into a state of crisis—harkening back to the coups that were common before the country embraced democratic governance in 1988.

Japan is now also among the OECD countries with the lowest voter turnout, a trend that is most notable in the young. More than 40 per cent of the electorate is aged 60 or over, but while turnout ...

Deep-seated grievance among Japanese voters has put the Liberal Democrats, longstanding custodians of the status quo, on notice. By Motoko Rich Reporting from Tokyo For years, Japan has managed to ...