Japan's Lower House has passed a budget bill for next fiscal year starting in April. Earlier on Tuesday, the chamber's budget ...

the Democratic Party for the People and the Japanese Communist Party — approved the draft revision to the public offices election law at a meeting in Japan's parliament on Friday. The meeting ...

In 1949 the Japanese Communist Party was at its peak: 200,000 claimed members, working control of Japanese unions, 3,000,000 votes in the Diet elections. Then the Red organizers overreached ...

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira on February 25 commented on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine at a press conference in Tokyo. The full text of his ...

then a senior editor at a Communist Party-run newspaper that was increasingly out of step with the party's hardening line, was arrested in February 2022 as he was having lunch with a Japanese ...

Gender equality in politics remains elusive in Japan, which marks the 80th anniversary of women’s suffrage this year. Female ...

Can the Japanese Communist Party rejuvenate its public image and reverse its diminishing political presence and relevance with its first leadership change in 23 years? To gain the support of a ...

The DPP’s support ratings have also consistently trailed the other opposition parties, including the Japanese Communist Party. With the term of Lower House members set to expire in October 2021 ...

The striking growth of China’s shipbuilding industry — commercial and military — poses national security concerns for the ...

Japan’s ties with the US face uncertainty under Trump, with trade disputes, security tensions, and shifting global alliances.

US trade representative also urged to liaise with American allies like Japan and South Korea, even as Donald Trump threatens levies on them.