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May 12, 2013
ISLAMABAD--Toppled in a 1999 coup, jailed and exiled, Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and on May 12 was heading for a third term as Pakistan's prime...
May 11, 2013
ISLAMABAD--A string of militant attacks and gunfights that killed at least 17 people cast a long shadow over Pakistan's general election on May 11, but millions still turned...
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...
March 27, 2013
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia--Malaysian leader Najib Razak has warned that nascent reforms can't be done "overnight" and that Southeast Asia's third-largest economy risks slipping...
March 05, 2013
Democracy can be described as a means of dealing with the opposition not by cracking heads but by counting them. Numbers matter in one way or another. When a certain stratum of ...
January 28, 2013
When the ordinary Diet session starts on Jan. 28, debate between the ruling and opposition parties can finally resume after the Dec. 16 Lower House election that resulted in...
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 25, 2012
DUSHANBE--Tajikistan blocked access to more than 100 local and foreign websites on Dec. 25, in what a government source said was a rehearsal of silencing critics before next...
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
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 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.