The recent change of leadership in Japan may affect the penal system, in particular, the system of capital punishment.

Credit-worthy surplus countries must expand domestic demand relative to potential output to revive the world economy.

A hot topic in recent Japanese politics has been: Should suffrage be extended to resident aliens?

The 2009 extraordinary Diet session, the first under the leadership of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet, opened Monday with a speech by Hatoyama to a Diet populated by an overwhelming majority of parliamentarians from his Democratic Party of Japan...

Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio has returned to Japan after what appears to have been a successful introduction to the world in New York and Pittsburgh last week...

With less than ten days until the start of the campaign for the LDP's presidency, the field is shrinking, not growing...

The work of picking a cabinet is done, said Hatoyama Yukio Sunday. He is scheduled to meet with Ozawa Ichiro Monday to finalize the lineup...

For the second time in three months, an effort by younger LDP members to lead the party in a different direction has run out of steam not long after getting started...

Addressing a question from the press regarding Japan's new government, Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell said Wednesday, "I think that with regards to the Indian Ocean refueling mission, we have greatly benefited from — as has the world, for that matter — from Japan's participation in those efforts, and we would very much encourage them to continue those efforts...."

A week after the Liberal Democratic Party suffered its first ever electoral defeat, a new party is already taking shape from the ashes...