With only four days before the nation goes to the polls, veteran lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa slammed the opposition camp Wednesday for failing to cooperate in the fight against the ruling bloc in the Upper House election. But Ozawa, who leads the small opposition Seikatsu ...

Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan sues Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for defamation, saying he has no grounds to accuse him of mismanaging the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

For Kan Suzuki, a tech-savvy Upper House member, the Internet is a powerful campaign tool that he can use to help him win a third term at a time when his party is facing so much adversity. Support for the former Keio University assistant ...

The Upper House election will be a test of the economic strategies being pursued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition government — or so says his ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Although Japan faces problems ranging from social welfare to history disputes and national security, ...

Opposition parties took aim Wednesday at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies, only to give the Liberal Democratic Party chief another chance to play up his administration’s “achievements” over the last six months. “We will rectify the ‘twisted’ Diet to bring political stability. We ...

Tamayo Marukawa, 42, seems to have it all. A University of Tokyo graduate, she scored one of the most coveted jobs in Japan as an announcer at TV Asahi. A popular presence there for 14 years, she left for a seat in the Upper ...

Only the Japanese Communist Party can act as a counterweight to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the Upper House election, especially against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic and constitutional revision plans, JCP Chairman Kazuo Shii declared Saturday. In an interview with The Japan ...

Democratic Party of Japan President Banri Kaieda on Saturday admitted that the opposition camp’s leading force hasn’t regained enough credibility to lead the charge against the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the Upper House election. “The public’s disappointment with us has not changed,” Kaieda ...

New Komeito President Natsuo Yamaguchi said Friday his party will continue to act as a counterweight to the Liberal Democratic Party if the senior coalition partner aggressively pursues revising the war-renouncing Article 9 or exercising the right of collective self-defense after the Upper House ...

New Komeito, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, pledged Thursday to push for a nuclear phaseout at the earliest possible date and bolster the Constitution by adding more provisions, a sharp contrast to the LDP’s desire to promote atomic power ...