Many voters queried about the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election Sunday said they cast ballots for Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First), the upstart party led by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, because they did not want the scandal-plagued Liberal Democratic Party to take control of ...
Republican Donald Trump can do little to stop Democrat Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency if she carries North Carolina, where their close race reflects the national liabilities of both candidates. Trump is struggling with conservative Democrats, especially women in the big and booming suburbs ...
The money scandals that felled Tokyo's past two governors apparently influenced Sunday's election with many voters saying they expected their new leader to stamp out graft in the capital.
Voters cited concerns about the economy, security and the Constitution as they participated in the Upper House election on Sunday, with many saying they chose the conservative Liberal Democratic Party and the continuity it represents. People in Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka interviewed by The Japan ...
For town, city and prefectural government offices around Japan, the key issue in next month's Upper House election is not constitutional revision or the economy. It's persuading 18-year-olds to go to the polls. While political pundits pointedly pontificate about the 2.4 million new youth votes, ...
The Upper House election could enable lawmakers in favor of constitutional amendment to call a referendum on the issue.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called for a recount of votes cast in last weeks' Kentucky Democratic presidential primary, after unofficial results showed him narrowly losing the state to front-runner Hillary Clinton. "I hereby request a full and complete check and recanvass of every ...
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump were favored to win their parties' U.S. presidential nominating contests in New York state on Tuesday, but voting was overshadowed by official confirmation that more than 125,000 people were missing from New York City voter rolls and ...
The nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization has launched a major voter-registration drive in the battleground state of Florida to identify and sign up hundreds of thousands of potential Hispanic voters. The Washington-based National Council of La Raza announced its plans Thursday morning at a ...
Hillary Clinton emerged from the Iowa caucuses with a razor-thin victory over Bernie Sanders — and a new round of nervous second-guessing from supporters. Topping the list of concerns is Clinton's disadvantage with young voters, a crucial Democratic constituency that overwhelmingly sided with Sanders. Clinton ...
Ruling and opposition parties agreed Tuesday to pass a bill soon to enable people aged 18 or 19 to vote in the House of Councilors election this summer even if they change their address shortly before the election. Japan is set to lower the voting ...
A 47-year-old Osaka voter has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting an election official after being greeted with a phrase he found insulting, the Osaka Prefectural Police said. After casting his ballots Sunday for the Osaka gubernatorial election, company employee Takao Nakamura of Ibaraki, Osaka ...
