Lee Teng-hui, one of Asia’s democracy icons, died last week at the age of 97. As president of Taiwan, he steered the island faithfully and unswervingly toward democracy, promoting Taiwanese ...

The Democrats, with the support of the Social Democratic Party and tacit backing of the Japanese Communist Party, promised voters some $77 billion in social spending on child allowances ...

A man threw several firebombs into the headquarters of Japan’s ruling party in Tokyo Saturday, public broadcaster NHK and other Japanese media reported. There were no reports of injuries.

Mizuho Fukushima, the leader of the Japanese Social Democratic Party (SDP), revealed to the Global Times in a written interview that, during her trip in China from Thursday to Saturday ...

Japan's right-wing Liberal Democratic Party dominated the country's parliamentary election just two days after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assasinated. On July 8, Abe was killed in the ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images/Paul Sancya/AP/Mike Segar/Reuters As if the world weren ...

In Japanese culture, the expression of political views is still approached with a degree of reservation and caution. It is a sort of unspoken rule deeply ingrained and can be observed across various ...