Prime minister Kan and former party secretary and overall heavyweight Ozawa are battling it out for the DPJ party leadership (and, incidenta...

Prime minister Hatoyama just announced that he'll be stepping down in response to the fallout from the US base mess and the resulting b...

I haven't written about politics here for a while. I'm kind of burnt out on it, frankly, and my focus has been split up over Japan, ...

Ichiro Ozawa, former DPJ president, former independent party head, former LDP member, kingmaker, power broker and all-around political backr...

The current DPJ government here in Japan was voted into power to break with old-time ruling party LDP, in part because of the habitual polit...

So, the DPJ actually made it (I'm a perennial pessimist regarding that party). They seem to be fairly well prepared for a power handover...

Right now we have 224 confirmed seats for DPJ against 49 for the LDP. The combined opposition parties are within a few seats of a majority. ...

After years of coy teasing and feeling each other up, the country and the parties finally embraced for election in late July. The parties...

The party is supported by 36% - one in three - of the population. Only 28% - one in four - thinks its leader is suitable for the Prime minis...

So, the LDP is crashing in the opinion polls. The party is in complete disarray, Aso has lost what little authority he had but refuses to st...

According to Mainichi Shinbun, Yukio Hatoyama is elected new DPJ leader , beating the other challenger Okada. I don't know much about e...

..and it's a sprint. DPJ (read:Ozawa) decided that an election for the next leader should be held sooner rather than later. It's due...

Ozawa, leader of opposition party DPJ has resigned , quit, abdicated, taken his leave, thrown in the towel, hung up his gloves, punched out ...

Here's a "creative" business idea: send mail advertisements disguised as newsletters from support groups for the disabled. Th...

The opposition party DPJ has a well-deserved reputation of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And true to form, party leader Ozawa...

There's been a long string of food safety and other consumer scandals here lately - enough that the "kanji of the year" became...