Japan’s political parties are promising to raise the minimum wage, a step that may win votes in Sunday’s general election but could squeeze the small and midsize firms that form the backbone ...

In Japan's general election on Sunday, the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito suffered a major defeat, which triggered political maneuvering involving the opposition ...

The Japanese Communist Party marked the centennial of its founding on July 15. It is the only Japanese political party that has continued to exist from the prewar era, but it is drifting toward ...

The long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party has lost its parliamentary majority, raising questions about the policy stability that has lured investors. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo The ...

Mr. Taniguchi, who was a special adviser to the cabinet of Shinzo Abe when he was prime minister of Japan, wrote from Tokyo. The political dominance of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has been ...

they have to negotiate and deal with the opposition party on an issue-by-issue basis,” Mori said. The LDP has governed Japan for almost all its post-war history, and has become a political force ...

Japan's renowned political scientist Takashi Inoguchi and one of his daughters died in a fire at his residence in Tokyo on ...

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's ruling and opposition parties agreed Tuesday to work toward abolishing policy activity funds, which are not subject ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...

Following its loss of a parliamentary majority in the October general election, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ...