ELECTION 2009

National | ELECTION 2009 Aug 31, 2009

In landslide, DPJ wins over 300 seats

The Democratic Party of Japan won the Lower House election by a landslide Sunday, grabbing more than 300 seats in the 480-seat chamber. The victory by the main opposition party will end more than half a century of almost uninterrupted rule by the Liberal Democratic ...

National | ELECTION 2009 Aug 29, 2009

Game almost up for LDP in Aomori

by Tomoko A. Hosaka

AOMORI — Perched on the upper tip of Honshu, Aomori Prefecture is tired of being left behind. The region of 1.4 million people spends half the year covered in snow. Its people are old. Unemployment hit a nationwide high of 7.9 percent this spring. People ...