Fewer than half of successful Japan election candidates in favor of female emperor: poll

TOKYO -- Only 47% of the 465 successful candidates in the recent House of Representatives election are in favor of Japan ...

Japan PM says she personally doesn't approve of 'nuclear sharing' with US

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told a House of Representatives plenary session on Feb. 24 that she ...
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Takaichi Dominates Japan’s Lower House Election

On February 8, Japanese voters went to the polls in a snap election for the lower house of the National Diet (Japan’s House of Representatives) and delivered a sweeping mandate to Prime Minister Sanae ...

The A.I. Evangelists on a Mission to Shake Up Japan

Team Mirai, a political party founded by software engineers, won 11 seats in Japan’s legislature by promising chatbots, self-driving buses and high-tech jobs.
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Japan’s Neighbors Anxiously Assess the Results of the Upper House Election

For the first time since 1955, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has lost control over both houses of parliament, known as the National Diet. In the July 20 election for the House of ...