That shows clear risks remain, including U.S. economic growth, which greatly affects export-reliant Japan. Political uncertainty in Japan is another risk as the ruling party picks a new leader.

A unique system of close co-operation between the ... Party leader Yukio Hatoyama comes from a typical Japanese political dynasty. His grandfather was the founder of the LDP (along with the ...

The Japanese Communist Party marked the centennial ... Even after the collapse of the so-called 1955 system, a political situation in which the dominant Liberal Democratic Party confronted the ...

Japan's Diet has enacted three political reform-related bills, following a money scandal involving the governing Liberal Democratic Party. The bills were approved at the Upper House plenary ...