lower house election
May 03, 2013
The Supreme Court will make maximum efforts to expedite decisions on the vote value disparity between the most populous and least populous constituencies in the Dec. 16 Lower...
March 30, 2013
I was watching a frankly dull documentary on YouTube when my vision suddenly blurred. God forbid, my eyes were tearing up!
March 26, 2013
The landmark rulings on March 25 and 26 that the results of the Dec. 16 Lower House election in some constituencies were invalid do not affect lawmakers for the time being. But ...
March 26, 2013
OKAYAMA--For the second time in as many days, a high court has ruled that last year’s Lower House election results were invalid due to the unconstitutional disparity in the...
March 15, 2013
A leading pachinko slot machine manufacturer paid at least 18 million yen ($187,520) to a business run by Diet member Hirotaka Ishihara's wife in hopes of securing political...
March 14, 2013
In a possible violation of election laws, employees of a scandal-ridden casino developer assisted in the Lower House campaign of a son of former Tokyo Governor Shintaro...
March 07, 2013
The Tokyo High Court’s March 6 ruling on the imbalance in the value of a vote in the December Lower House election was extremely orthodox in our view.
March 05, 2013
Japan's ruling party, while hardly a champion of environmental issues, is apparently rather touchy about any criticism of its policies in that area.
January 28, 2013
There is a wide gap between Lower House lawmakers elected in December and voters on the Constitution and the right to collective self-defense, according to a new survey...
January 21, 2013
Forty-nine percent of voters approved Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s emergency economic measures centered on public works projects, compared with 29 percent who disapproved, an...
January 11, 2013
Judging by the surprisingly low voter turnout on Dec. 16, it seems that the Lower House election has failed to offer voters any real options to choose from.
January 01, 2013
Every Friday night over the past summer, thousands of people gathered in front of the Prime Minister's Official Residence shouting slogans and banging on drums in calling on...
December 25, 2012
With a wife and two young children to support and a 20-year mortgage to pay, an aide to a defeated Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker is now desperately seeking to hitch his...
December 19, 2012
Although voters returned the Liberal Democratic Party to power in the Dec. 16 Lower House election, a large portion of respondents to a poll who welcomed the result also...
December 19, 2012
A former infantryman who witnessed the horrors of World War II stood in the Dec. 16 Lower House election to defend Japan's pacifist Constitution.
December 18, 2012
Following the Liberal Democratic Party's landslide victory in the Lower House election on Dec. 16, incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may succeed in passing his proposal to...
December 18, 2012
A lawyers' group filed 27 suits on Dec. 17 with high courts and their branches in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and 10 other cities demanding the Dec. 16 Lower House election...
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 17, 2012
Japan is expected to reverse course to scrap nuclear power, and take a stronger stand in international disputes under a government led by Shinzo Abe, whose Liberal Democratic...
December 17, 2012
Despite the landslide victory on Dec. 16 by his Liberal Democratic Party, Shinzo Abe has not been given a blank check to govern in his second chance as prime minister due to...