The Democratic Party called Monday for the new minister in charge of issues related to Okinawa to be sacked after he made a gaffe just two days after being assigned the post in the latest Cabinet reshuffle. Tetsuma Esaki told reporters Saturday that he would ...
Former Environment Minister Goshi Hosono said Friday he will leave the struggling Democratic Party to form a new group, the latest setback for the main opposition party since the abrupt resignation of its leader last week. "I will leave the party and rise with resolve ...
Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano announces he will run in the election to succeed Renho as president of the Democratic Party.
Voters are ready for a viable alternative to the LDP, but the leading opposition party is failing to deliver.
As long as the Democratic Party's leadership is owned by big-monied special interests, it will never give the people what they want and need.
Democratic Party heavyweight Yoshihiko Noda announced Tuesday he will step down from the main opposition party's No. 2 post to take responsibility for its crushing defeat in Tokyo's election earlier this month. Noda's resignation as the party's secretary-general represents the centerpiece of a leadership shake-up ...
Democratic Party leader Renho is leaning toward replacing Secretary-General Yoshihiko Noda after the main opposition party's lackluster showing in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election, a party lawmaker said Thursday. The former prime minister voiced his desire to step down to his aides after the July ...
Leader of largest opposition party takes unusual step in bid to prove she has resolved her dual nationality status
Democratic Party leader Renho signaled the main opposition party's rejection of a plan by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to revise Article 9 of the Constitution in order to provide a rationale for the existence of the Self-Defense Forces. "If the Article 9 revision takes the ...
The Cabinet's decision last week to approve the redrawing of Japan's electoral map by eliminating one Lower House district from each of six prefectures (Aomori, Iwate, Mie, Nara, Kumamoto and Kagoshima) is the central government's response to a declining population that is increasingly concentrated ...
During a Lower House budget committee debate on May 8, Akira Nagatsuma of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to clarify remarks he had recently made about revising the Constitution. On May 3, which happened to be Constitution Day, ...
Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's dangerous flaws, the world is still better off without Hillary Clinton leading America.
