A year ago, the Democratic Party of Japan's (DPJ) landslide victory in the Lower House election ushered in euphoric predictions of bold new policies and even a transformation of the Japanese political ...

A Japanese political party seemingly inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda made significant gains in the country’s parliamentary elections on Sunday. Japan’s relatively new ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)’s crushing defeat in Japan’s Lower House election last October has led to political unpredictability. The bureaucracy in Japan provides important ...

For a long time, Japan’s political system was treated as a success story in comparison with other democratic states. During the 2010s, while Western democracies were engulfed by a populist surge ...

The February 2026 lower house election in Japan resulted in a landslide victory for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The LDP secured 316 of the 465 contested seats, achieving a ...