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...

Election time is finally coming around, and the entire Japanese politics blog world just wet itself in collective anticipation. The LDP...

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...

Japan's Finance minister Yosano seems to have been accepting donations from a dummy front set up to pay politicians for more than twent...

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

More politics, and no, not funny. Japanese finance minister Nakagawa was filmed giving a slurred speech at the G-7 meeting, after which he p...

A note: I have been (very gently) berated by a friend for posting too much about Japanese politics. I understand of course; these are remote...

The current government of Aso Tarō is not having a good year. With the economy in critical shape, they're being forced by their coalitio...

When Tarō Aso was chosen as new prime minister and party leader after Fukuda (becoming the third prime minister in a row not actually electe...

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

Shisaku has a quick analysis of the rollback of the conservative legislative agenda of last year. Prime minister Abe enacted or tried to en...