In addition to issues like constitutional reform, social questions like disabled and LGBT rights are also in the spotlight.

Japan is at the heart of virtually every effort to write new rules governing the global trading system in the 21st century.

Controversy has surrounded Japanese Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso ever since he entered politics.

Japan’s 2009 election experience has lessons for Malaysia’s first opposition government.

The Japanese prime minister's public support continues to dwindle.

Despite the attention to domestic scandals, the fatal blow to the Japanese premier’s prospects may come from Tokyo’s closest foreign ally.

Xi Jinping met with a Japanese delegation led by Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of Japan's LDP, in Beijing.

From economics to defense to politics, the Abe government has changed Japan.

The reshuffled Japanese cabinet from August 2017 will remain in place following the LDP's general election showing.

The ruling coalition scores a two-thirds majority in the Lower House elections.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks a new mandate amid an intensified threat from North Korea.

A much-needed electoral victory for the LDP comes with arrests in a scandal involving Abe and his wife.

Tomomi Inada leaves office days shy of completing a one-year term.

The LDP takes another electoral hit as approval ratings continue to slide.

Is the beginning of the end for Abe's political dominance?

As regional tensions rise, Japan will have to make the most of a limited defense budget.