The ruling Liberal Democratic Party led by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is not sending an observer to an upcoming meeting in March in New York of the signatories of the U.N. nuclear ban ...

The LDP was formed in 1955 by the merger of two major conservative parties: the Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, just as leftwing groups formed the Socialist Party. They led Japan ...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) unveiled on Tuesday its manifesto for an Oct. 31 election with a focus on ending the coronavirus pandemic, promises to rebuild the middle class and ...

A week before the Democratic National ... two members of Congress and a liberal business group, in addition to four major labor unions that are influential in the party. In a time of both ...

For most of the last seventy years, Japan’s political parties have been at odds over the constitution, making revision impossible. The conservatives in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ...

In the Year of the Snake 2013, the Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the House of Councillors election, riding the momentum gained from retaking power from the Democratic Party of ...

Parties like America’s New Deal Democrats, the Swedish Social Democrats, the Italian Christian Democrats, and the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party enjoyed periods of dominance and near-fusion with ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

Japanese Prime Minister ... more ground to a small opposition party seeking a larger tax-free allowance, according to the party’s policy chief. The Democratic Party for the People will continue ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Political activists in the United States watch on in anguish as the liberal Democratic Party struggles to rediscover a sense ...

What has been clear to some of us for years is finally common knowledge: the Democratic Party is lost in the wilderness. It is the most unpopular it has been since Quinnipiac began asking the ...

On Saturday, Feb. 1, the Democratic Nation Committee chose a new party chairperson, Minnesota’s Ken Martin. Martin, the longtime head of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, promised to ...