To retake the reins of power, the DP must be ready to offer voters a genuine alternative of the kind Japan hasn't seen in decades.

If Prime Minister Abe and his party were less beholden to vested interests, his efforts to defeat deflation would gain more traction.

Japan can send China a wake-up call on North Korea by hosting a series of THAAD missile defense system.

To save his political hide, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should do something arguably no Japanese leader has done in decades: project strength and leadership abroad.

As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's team details plans to revive growth and increase competitiveness, four numbers keep coming up: 2020.

Now, as Tokyo sorts out the biggest failure in postwar Japanese manufacturing, it's all too possible its political and corporate cultures will learn little from "Takatagate."

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has multiple reasons to pick this moment for a Cabinet reshuffle.

Japan has a media problem, and it's holding back the economy and undermining Abe's goal of raising Tokyo's global status.

By supporting new generations of renewable-energy startups Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could create the millions of high-paying jobs that have eluded his Abenomics push.

U.S. President Donald Trump's ignorance of the lessons of Japan's economic travails over the past three decasdes could lead him to make costly policy errors.