The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will likely increase its seats significantly in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives ...

R ISK COMES naturally to Cheng Li-wun, Taiwan’s opposition leader. She began her career as a student activist in the 1990s, ...

In the video, China’s former agriculture minister, Tang Renjian, tearfully recounted the transgressions for which he was given a death sentence. The timing of the choreographed spectacle delivered a ...

Last month she decided to test her strong performance in the polls by calling a snap election on 8 February to Japan’s lower, more powerful house (loosely equivalent to the House of Commons, although ...

Xi Jinping's purge of high-ranking military officials leaves awkward gaps in leadership ahead of the National People's Congress in March.

OSAKA--The two ruling coalition partners have set up unusual showdowns across all 19 Lower House constituencies in Osaka ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has stated in its campaign pledge for the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election ...

The 12-day campaign period for the Feb. 8 election for Japan's House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, began Tuesday. This is the first general ...

Two activists who organised vigils as leaders of a now-defunct group, are facing national security charges. Read more at ...

A wily former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, famously said that “a week is a long time in politics.” If anything, he was guilty of understatement.

Audiences showed varied reactions to stump speeches throughout Japan by prospective candidates of the Centrist Reform Alliance, created by former rival parties just before Friday's dissolution of the ...