National / Politics | DECISION 2014 Dec 15, 2014
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, its junior partner in the ruling coalition, win the Lower House election by a landslide Sunday, claiming 325 seats.
National / Politics Mar 27, 2013
LDP undaunted by vote-value rulings
by Reiji Yoshida
Despite a spate of high court rulings that last year's general election was unconstitutional and even invalid due to large vote disparities, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party doesn't think it is necessary to hold another Lower House campaign as long as it works on ...
National / Crime & Legal Mar 26, 2013
The Hiroshima High Court becomes the first court in the nation to invalidate results from last year's Lower House election because of unconstitutional vote-value disparities.