In a global year of elections, Japan’s long-serving Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has suffered its second-worst result on ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s ...

via REUTERS The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is increasingly unpopular with ... The Liberal Democrats have ruled Japan almost incessantly over recent decades. They are credited with leading ...

Official campaigning for the leadership election of Japan's second-largest but flagging opposition party kicked off Sunday, ...

According to exit polls by the NHK public television, Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party is certain to lose the majority in the 465-seat house, the more powerful of Japan’s two-chamber parliament.

SEOUL — Japan’s ruling party on Sunday lost ... of political disarray for a key U.S. ally in Asia. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been in power almost continuously since its founding ...

The LDP was formed in 1955 by the merger of two major conservative parties: the Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, just as leftwing groups formed the Socialist Party. They led Japan ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has become increasingly unpopular ... who was in Kagoshima in southern Japan on Saturday, as saying democracy should never give in to violence.

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is one of the democratic world's most successful parties, a one-size-fits-all electoral machine in power for all but four of the last 69 years. But in snap ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for all but four years since 1955, lost more than 50 seats in an election for the House of Representatives, the influential lower chamber of ...

Japan's voters on Sunday headed to the polls on Sunday in an election that was expected to shake up the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's majority. As polls closed at 8 p.m. local time ...