Yoshihiko Noda
June 14, 2013
The government's white paper on energy for fiscal 2012 makes no mention of the policy set by the previous administration of scrapping reliance on nuclear power in the 2030s.
February 20, 2013
Japan's ambassador to China at the time relations plunged over the Senkaku Islands dispute has criticized the government then in power for stampeding where a soft tread was...
December 24, 2012
BEIJING--State news outlets in China cautiously welcome the imminent change of government in Japan that will be headed by Shinzo Abe, but remain wary about the conservative...
December 17, 2012
The Liberal Democratic Party surged to power in the Dec. 16 Lower House election, gaining enough strength to help it ram through its policies in the Diet while leaving the...
December 07, 2012
Politicians expressed shock, shifted strategies and pointed fingers after major Japanese dailies predicted the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party would gain an outright...
December 07, 2012
The social media steamroller credited with helping Barack Obama win re-election as U.S. president is playing a bigger role than ever before in Japanese politics as the country...
December 05, 2012
With less than two weeks left to the Dec. 16 election, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is displaying the same quiet determination that helped him clinch a breakthrough...
December 04, 2012
With pressing economic and nuclear energy issues still to be settled, campaigning officially kicked off Dec. 4 for a national election that will determine the course Japan...
December 04, 2012
Japan’s politics has been in chaos for years. Domestically this has created policy paralysis and economic stagnation, but Japan’s ability to manage its international...
December 03, 2012
Japanese Prime Minister Noda has dissolved the Lower House for a Dec. 16 snap election. He seems to be leaning toward reviving the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) campaign to...
November 30, 2012
The party most likely to form a government after the forthcoming election has talked of adopting a nationalist, low-tolerance approach to China—in contrast with the present...
November 30, 2012
A Nov. 29 debate between political party leaders reached a huge online audience, with many viewers following it live on a streaming portal where they could share their...
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 27, 2012
Japan's ruling party vowed on Nov. 27 to defend the nation's interests with "cool-headed and practical" diplomacy in an election manifesto that sought to portray a contrast...
November 25, 2012
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Nov. 25 that the opposition's call for radical monetary easing to beat chronic deflation was "dangerous" and defended the independence of...
November 21, 2012
PHNOM PENH--Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, on Nov. 20 agreed to hold talks on adopting Japan’s bullet-train system for a high-speed ...
November 20, 2012
PHNOM PENH--Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda proposed on Nov. 20 that Japan and the United States speed up discussions on Japan joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade...
November 20, 2012
PHNOM PENH--Japan's ruling party will only officially endorse candidates in the Dec. 16 Lower House election who pledge to support Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's initiative to ...
November 17, 2012
In just over three years, the fortunes of Japan’s two main political parties have been reversed.
November 17, 2012
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan narrowed the gap in support with the front-running Liberal Democratic Party, but unaffiliated voters could well determine the outcome of...