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 ...

Japan stands on the threshold of change as the Aug 30 election to its Lower House of Parliament is expected to see the end of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule for just the second time in more than ...

The DPJ’s policy switch on an FTA with the United States only serves to confirm that it prioritises farm votes over economic reform. Last week, DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama declared that the party had ...

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 ...

The agreement between the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and Japan Innovation Party (JIP) to merge into a single party was prompted by their leaders' fears that they would lose any ...

Last week the DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama had written an essay, part of which was adapted into an op-ed published in the NYT, and this prompted some anxiety that a DPJ victory represented a dire ...

The DPJ’s recent policy positions on agriculture raise doubts that it can be the party of economic reform. Not only has it backtracked on its own reform proposals; it has also actively undermined ...

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up With a week to go, the leadership race of Japan’s ruling party still appears to be neck and neck. A clear surge of support for one of the candidates ...

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 ...

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 ...