Japan's opposition Democratic Party of Japan fulfilled predictions by winning a landslide victory over the moribund ruling party. The change in government is historic: It is only the second time in 50 ...

No two candidates could present such a different image for the identity of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The citizen activist-turned-bureaucratic reformer-turned-party president has been ...

In the 2003 Lower House election, the DPJ, led by Kan Naoto, compiled an election manifesto that promised to create a system of direct payments to farmers. This matched the broad trend in government ...

DPJ fails to live up to its promises on facebook (opens in a new window) DPJ fails to live up to its promises on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to power with a landslide win on Sunday, December 16, after just three years and three months in opposition. The party won 294 seats (out of 480 total) ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At a street-corner speech in Japan’s northern industrial town of Muroran ahead of last month’s election, Miyuki ...

Japan’s new ruling party seems about to go down in flames. Prime Minister Hatoyama looks badly shaken after the first few weeks of the legislative season. The policy agenda of Japan’s new DPJ ...

The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in August 2009, having won a solid majority of seats in that summer's lower house election. It was the first time any party other than the Liberal ...