No two candidates could present such a different image for the identity of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The citizen activist-turned-bureaucratic reformer-turned-party president has been ...

DPJ fails to live up to its promises on facebook (opens in a new window) DPJ fails to live up to its promises on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

Japan's opposition Democratic Party of Japan fulfilled predictions by winning a landslide victory over the moribund ruling party. The change in government is historic: It is only the second time in 50 ...

Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Katsuya Okada is seen on Jan. 18, 2016. (Mainichi) There is no sign that the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) will recover its strength ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Asia-Pacific news every morning. A former leader of Japan’s ruling Democratic party has vowed to “battle” prosecutors after the arrest ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to power with a landslide win on Sunday, December 16, after just three years and three months in opposition. The party won 294 seats (out of 480 total) ...

In the 2003 Lower House election, the DPJ, led by Kan Naoto, compiled an election manifesto that promised to create a system of direct payments to farmers. This matched the broad trend in government ...

The DPJ and JIP entered into merger talks in August 2015, but negotiations were interrupted as internecine strife broke out in the JIP. Talks resumed after the Osaka faction split off from the JIP in ...