Japan's unwillingness to reform its immigration policies has led to its "technical trainee" program being used to provide cheap labor from developing...
Despite the seriousness of the Moritomo Gakuen scandal, the odds of Shinzo Abe surviving as Prime Minister are actually good - but...
For the “Abe Children”, those members of the LDP who have been elected under the leadership of Shinzo Abe, the Moritomo Gakuen scandal...
Donald Trump’s announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminum tariffs last week shouldn’t have been as much of a surprise as it...
On January 23, the remaining members of the Trans Pacific Partnership formally agreed to move forward on the agreement without the United...
Though Donald Trump may have announced U.S. withdrawal from the massive trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the remaining eleven...
With the campaign for the 2017 House of Representatives election now firmly behind us – it ended sharply at midnight on Saturday,...
A couple of weeks ago, we ended our editorial on the forthcoming snap election with a line that came, we confess, from...
Last week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked Japanese voters to go to the polls on October 22, the third time voters have...
Prime Minister Abe’s visit to India last week underlined an important economic development for Japan – the enormous interest in replicating the country’s...
Japan and other U.S. partners are scrambling to understand Donald Trump's trade policy - but many signs point to it simply being...
The Democratic Party's new leader, Seiji Maehara, faces a tough task in building an opposition coalition - but his first challenge is...