Lower House
April 14, 2013
Japan's percentage of female lawmakers has plummeted to 163rd out of 190 nations since the Liberal Democratic Party won the Lower House election in December, a study showed.
March 29, 2013
An advisory panel’s proposal redraws electoral district boundaries that would reduce the ratio in the value of a vote between the most and least populous districts to 1.998:1.
March 28, 2013
A series of recent high court rulings on the disparity in the value of votes between some single-seat constituencies in last year’s Lower House election has come as a fresh...
January 08, 2013
Next week, trials will start across the nation concerning the gap in the value of a vote between the most and the least populous Lower House constituencies. Lawsuits seeking...
December 31, 2012
Naoki Inose, who won the Dec. 16 Tokyo gubernatorial election with a record 4.34 million votes, noted that the post of Tokyo governor is "like that of a prime minister whose...
December 26, 2012
Shinzo Abe was chosen prime minister in a special Diet session on Dec. 26, marking his return to Japan’s top post on a conservative agenda and promises to jump-start the...
December 19, 2012
The three-day battledore fair kicked off Dec. 17 in Tokyo's Asakusa district. It takes place annually, marking the year's end.
December 18, 2012
The Democratic Party of Japan, which suffered a ruinous defeat in the Dec. 16 Lower House election, must have learned from its traumatic experience how difficult and harsh it...
December 17, 2012
Voter turnout set a new postwar low in the Lower House election held Dec. 16, figures show.
December 17, 2012
The Dec. 16 Lower House election again demonstrated the tremendous ability of the single-seat constituency system to drastically change the political landscape overnight.
December 14, 2012
The issue of constitutional revision, or even writing a new Constitution, has major ramifications and is not something that can be overlooked in the Lower House election to be...
December 10, 2012
Entering the latter half of the 12-day official campaign for the Dec. 16 Lower House election, political parties continue to advocate a review of the nation’s nuclear power...
December 06, 2012
On the eve of the Dec. 4 start of official campaigning for the Dec. 16 Lower House election, many candidates posted a similar message on their websites and Twitter and Facebook ...
December 05, 2012
Victories and losses can be big, medium or small.
December 05, 2012
The Dec. 16 Lower House election campaign kicked off Dec. 4 with candidates from as many as 12 political parties in the running.
December 04, 2012
Both the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party are shying away from stating clearly whether they support or oppose Japan’s...
December 03, 2012
In waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, where the azure sky blends with the sea, a tense maritime face-off unfolds almost daily.
November 30, 2012
November must have been a record month in the number of political parties that came into being and then disappeared--if you include "ephemeral perches" that have no party...
November 28, 2012
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Nov. 27 unveiled the Democratic Party of Japan's campaign platform for the Dec. 16 Lower House election.
November 27, 2012
If Japan is to have any chance of political renewal, it must promote the power of women.