Deep in the Shikoku wilderness, along a steep winding road above a dark green river, sits the tiny village of Okawa. It's located in a region sometimes dubbed by enthusiastic travel writers as the "Tibet of Japan" for its comparative isolation within the mountains. With ...
The key to political novice Emmanuel Macron's success is found far from France — and four decades removed from the present.
The choices made by established conservative elites, as much as the challenges posed by insurgent outsiders, determine the fate of democracy.
Taiwan's president on Sunday offered to help China to transition to democracy, on the 28th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square, as thousands gathered in Hong Kong for an evening vigil. Nearly three decades after Beijing sent ...
President Erdogan uses a permanent "state of emergency" to destroy Turkish democracy
Japan ranked 72nd on a 2017 list of press freedom around the world — its same overall position from a year earlier — but fell to last among its Group of Seven peers as Italy climbed to 52nd, according to the 180-nation World Press ...
A referendum approving amendments to Turkey's constitution will give President Erdogan vast new powers.
Nineteen U.S. states have introduced bills that would curb freedom of expression and the right to protest since Donald Trump's election as president, an "alarming and undemocratic" trend, U.N. human rights investigators said on Thursday. Concerns for free speech in the United States have risen ...
There is no country in Southeast Asia where democracy is really secure.
With the inauguration of new U.S. President Donald Trump, democratic politics are being confronted with changes of the magnitude that could happen only once in a century.
Yayha Jammeh, who lost Gambia's presidential election last month, should honor the people's will by stepping down.
Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China's Pinyin Romanization system, died Saturday at the age of 111. Born in 1906 during China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing, Zhou died at his home in Beijing, one day after celebrating his birthday, according to ...
