With their "Japanese First" slogan, riffing off US President Donald Trump's "America First", they have truly ruffled the ...

Another bellwether of political trends in Japan will be the nationwide local elections and by-elections for parliamentary seats this month. The LDP still enjoys 36 percent support, by far the largest ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty.

Japan, as a lesser capitalist power, gained the status as a "relative buffer" under the US-Soviet rivalry and was able to conduct trade with both political blocs.

F L I R October 5, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Asia Blog Brand: The Reboot Tags: U.S. Politics 2020 Presidential Election Japan U.S. Allies Diplomacy ...

Japan’s United States–imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, Sheila A. Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an increasingly assertive China have the ...

Overview Japan's new politics challenge some basic assumptions about U.S.-Japan alliance management. From the election of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in 2009 to the return of the Liberal ...

The political dominance of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has been remarkable. Despite incessant internal jockeying that has often led to a revolving door of leaders (a problem that remains ...