Twenty F̶o̶u̶r̶ [First Century Liberal Democratic] Party People
Japan lacks effective and coherent political opposition - but is it even possible to imagine what that might look like?
Recent years have witnessed Japan’s most dramatic program of legal and political reforms since the end of the Second World War, reforms...
Support for the government may be falling, but the shock resignation of the Democratic Party's top leadership shows that the crisis in...
Japan’s powerful bureaucracy has existed symbiotically with the LDP for generations; but recent scandals suggest some ministry officials are done covering for...
Shinzō Abe faces tough polling in the wake of scandals and an electoral defeat - but the Prime Minister's grasp on power...
Tokyo's elections were a stinging rebuke to the LDP government - but focusing on national consequences can overlook the local issues behind...