Leaders of eight Japan's political parties take part in a debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo Wednesday, July 2, ...

In a sluggish economy, membership is seen as a path to a stable state-sector income.

A regional party for which Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko serves as special adviser has emerged as the largest force after the ...

A Japanese politician says she received more than 8,000 death threats after proposing free sanitary pads in public toilets. Ayaka Yoshida, a 27-year-old member of the Japanese Communist Party ...