Speculation grows that a vulnerable Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will call a Lower House election in October to keep the opposition camp in disarray while new parties emerge.
The Abe administration should not seek to amend the Constitution just because political circumstances make it possible.
Ruling party chief Diosdado Cabello said Venezuelan troops quashed a "terrorist" attack at a military base Sunday, shortly after a small group of men dressed in fatigues released a video declaring themselves in rebellion. Cabello reported on Twitter that troops quickly contained the early morning ...
Lawyers poring over the activity logs that led to the defense minister's exit suspect that redactions point to illegal activities.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his government remains committed to a plan to complete the doubling of the consumption tax to 10 percent in 2019.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's attempt to pressure his party into revising its constitutional revision proposals by the end of the year appears to have backfired, and he is now willing to let the party itself dictate the timing instead. At a news conference after Thursday's ...
Peru may sever diplomatic ties with Venezuela to protest Sunday's election of a legislative superbody in the country that has been widely criticized as undemocratic, Peruvian Foreign Minister Ricardo Luna said on Thursday. Luna said Peru wanted to discuss appropriate measures with his regional counterparts ...
Venezuela's president defiantly dismissed allegations that official turnout figures for the election of an all-powerful constituent assembly were manipulated, accusing the international software firm behind the claim of bowing to U.S. pressure to cast doubt over a body that he hopes will entrench an ...
Revelations on Wednesday that turnout figures were apparently manipulated in a crucial vote for an all-powerful constituent assembly in Venezuela cast an even longer shadow over the controversial body hours before it was to convene. The official count of voters in Sunday's election was off ...
Teams of heavily armed security agents seized two of Venezuela's top opposition leaders from their homes in the middle of the night Tuesday, dragging one into the street in his pajamas as President Nicolas Maduro's government defied U.S. sanctions and international condemnation of a ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has achieved much of his conservative security agenda since taking office in 2012, but unless he can revive his flagging popularity, his goal of revising the pacifist Constitution is likely to elude his grasp. Failure to achieve that goal by the ...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party may push to amend the Constitution to ensure financial factors do not deprive Japanese of the opportunity to get an education, party sources said Sunday. In May, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also president of the LDP, embarked on ...
