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 ...

The DPJ’s policy switch on an FTA with the United States only serves to confirm that it prioritises farm votes over economic reform. Last week, DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama declared that the party had ...

The agreement between the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and Japan Innovation Party (JIP) to merge into a single party was prompted by their leaders' fears that they would lose any ...

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 Democratic Party of Japan's (DPJ) landslide victory in August served as a watershed moment in the country's electoral politics. Japan, a parliamentary democracy, had been dominated by the Liberal ...

Last week the DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama had written an essay, part of which was adapted into an op-ed published in the NYT, and this prompted some anxiety that a DPJ victory represented a dire ...

And so the drama continues. A last minute attempt to avoid potential disaster for the Democratic Party of Japan has failed to put an end to Ichiro Ozawa’s bid to become prime minister of Japan. As if ...

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) ...

Credit: U.S. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Cohen A. Young Acting party leader Katsuya Okada was elected president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in an intraparty election last Sunday.