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Shinzo Abe has dissolved the lower house of Japan's Diet. Japan will head to the polls again on December 14, 2014.

Following a slowdown in Abenomics' success and the collective self-defense resolution, Abe's approval falls.

Banri Kaieda, head of Japan's DJP, is in China hoping to repair ties between Tokyo and Beijing.

Can Japan’s small, fractured opposition find the ability to coordinate on hot-button issues?

More parties are splitting and merging, but none seem able to challenge the LDP.

The DPJ's Former Vice Defense Minister Akihisa Nagashima supports the LDP's collective defense proposal.

Shinzo Abe gets the Upper House victory he wanted, and then moves to reassure voters as to his intentions.

As campaigning gets underway for this month’s Upper House election in Japan, Shinzo Abe’s ruling LDP appears well placed.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has a chance to rescue Japan’s economy with a key free trade agreement. Failure to seize it could result in terminal decline.

Yoshihiko Noda takes office at the most crucial time for Japan in half a century, says Michael Auslin. But with lacklustre public support, he has his work cut out.

Yoshihiko Noda faces plenty of challenges as Japan’s new prime minister. The most immediate is choosing his new government.

New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda faces a deeply divided party and dysfunctional system.