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, ...

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...

I'm really going to cut all political posts for a while, I promise. We've got the Japanese upper house election next July and the S...

The election is just two days away. As the voters walk through town to the polling stations the parties have one final chance to appeal, thr...

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