The maximum vote-value disparity between House of Councilors prefectural constituencies has risen to 3.126 times for the July ...

Most worrisome now is a growing sense among the Japanese public that the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner.

Ahead of the Upper House elections on July 20, Sanseito, the party I lead, has adopted the slogan “Japanese First” and is ...

Given all that is taking place, this is shaping up to be one of the most unusual Upper House elections in decades.

Japan's law for promoting gender equality in politics calls on political parties to make the number of male and female ...

A working relationship with ruling parties is key to achieving their policy goals, but at the risk of losing their populist ...

A flurry of fast-moving events over the past week have thrown Japan’s tariff negotiations with the United States into ...

Japan Asset Management Platform handles many of the formalities and much of the necessary operations for fund managers.

Defections across the land border are relatively rare, as the area is densely forested, heavily mined and monitored by ...

Tokyo and Kyoto are top cities for “noctourism,” or nighttime tourism, among more than 100 major cities worldwide, according ...

The July 2020 downpours, which caused floods and mudslides, left 67 people dead, including indirect fatalities, and two ...

The discovery raises serious concerns about the integrity of the research in the papers and highlights flaws in academic ...