As you may know, Ichiro Ozawa, general political heavyweight in Japan, is now on trial for his office having accepted some 400 million yen ...

The next political punching bag Finance Ministry handpuppet DPJ party president and Prime minister of Japan is Yoshihiko Noda . He is Fina...

A few Monday morning notes, in no particular order: I know paper reviews are simply reviewing your paper, not your work or yourself. Tha...

Question:     Japanese governments are typically weak, squeezed as they are between internal party politics — politicians are less loyal to...

A total of seven power utilities in Japan have ordered their employees to attend public nuclear power-related hearings and symposia and pos...

I'm finally seeing the end of a marathon paper writing process ­— not the end, mind you, but at least there is an end in sight. Meanwhil...

In the end, Ozawa withdrew his support for the no-confidence motion. Without his support it stood no chance; the motion was defeated 293-152...

The opposition parties have submitted a no-confidence motion against the government. By itself it's kind of a pointless gesture, and a b...

I've been pushing this text around for a week or more; it's still too wordy by far but it has resisted all my attempts to tighten it...

I've never met Ozawa, I have no background in Japanese politics and I have never studied political science in my life. Take this - and a...

The man who just keeps bouncing back over and over again after everybody thinks he's gone - no, not Jason , Ozawa - may really be gone t...

So, Osawa has been formally indicted for dirty money deals . I have more than a few thoughts on this, so bear with me. Very briefly, Ozawa...

The vote count is almost over, and the coalition got one more seat, still two shy of a majority. They lacked nine votes in Värmland and seve...

According to Dagens Nyheter, just a few votes can change the voting results. In Darlarna district (where my parents and I vote), there'...

The Swedish election was fairly close, with the center-right coalition just three seats from a majority. As it turns out, as few as another ...

The preliminary 1 results of the Swedish election are about as expected. The coalition won, but are a meager three seats shy of a majority....

The Swedish election is only a couple of days away. The polls open on Sunday - that's Sunday evening here, and we'll know the result...

In the DPJ leadership election today, Kan beat Ozawa - and pretty handily too. He got just over half of Diet member votes, 60% of the prefec...

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

Upper house election is done, and a loss - a fair, well-deserved loss - for the DPJ. They would have needed 60 seats to get full control ove...