Japanese politics stands at a crossroad. At home, the LDP’s election loss last year has not just forced an end to more than a decade of stable majority rule; it has also forced unprecedented inner ...

This fact has made the of parliamentary democracy a painfully task in Japan. Herein lies, we believe, problem of Japanese politics today, and whenever we turn to the analysis of events.

The lesson begins with a brief review of Japanese history from 1868 to 1926. Students are then engaged in crafting preliminary definitions of national, polity, constitutional, democracy, imperial, and ...

And would Japanese citizens and politicians have the guts to put their lives on the line to protect democracy? Under martial law in South Korea, all political activities, including rallies and ...

Japan and South Korea are at their most fragile political states in decades just as their ally, the United States, has begun ...

Wagner: I strongly became interested in the relationship between Japan’s democracy and emperor, when I worked as a Tokyo-based correspondent of a German magazine for a total of nearly 20 years ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democracy Party has proposed a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies that includes a ...

Japan’s Taisho era promised greater democracy, but militarism soon began to take hold. In Part 2 of this series, we explore the factors that led to the decline of civilian government and the ...