Ruling, opposition camps switch into campaign mode day after election date confirmed
A day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set July 10 as the date for the upcoming Upper House election, the nation's ruling and opposition parties wasted no time Thursday launching into campaign mode. Opposition parties are forming an uncharacteristically united front in an attempt to ...
If Abe camp wins big in July 10 Upper House poll, talk of revising Constitution expected to heat up
Debate over constitutional revision could heat up, depending on the results of the Upper House election next month, in which revising the supreme law, a goal of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will likely become a key issue. Abe said in a press conference on Wednesday ...
Abe lurches to economic left to broaden appeal before crucial summer election
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is shifting his economic policies to the left in a bid to broaden his appeal ahead of a key election this summer. In stark contrast to his opening Abenomics salvo three years ago, which weakened the yen and boosted corporate profits ...
Constitutional scholar Kobayashi announces plan for anti-Abe party, Upper House bid
A constitutional scholar inspired by U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders jumps into the Upper House race to stop the "uncontrollable" government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Does the Japanese Constitution mean anything?
If the Liberal Democratic Party gets its way, the current charter, full of rights that are barely known, would be replaced with a constitution that's more about duties.
Expert sees Japan's high level of digital rights offset by public disinclined to curb Big Brother
Japan’s restrictions on freedom of expression are growing but its sleepy public might not wake up before it’s too late, a U.N. special rapporteur warns.
Abe's revisionist agenda subject of opposing rallies on Constitution Day
Marking the 69th anniversary of the postwar pacifist Constitution, supporters and opponents of constitutional revision held rallies in Tokyo on Tuesday to speak out on their respective causes. Participants were particularly enthusiastic this year as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party gears up ...
Obama takes case for Supreme Court pick to home turf of GOP senators up for re-election
President Barack Obama on Monday took the political battle over his pick for a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court to the home states of seven Republican senators up for re-election in November. Obama conducted interviews with local television anchors where he argued that Republican ...
Systemic avoidance of political issues by schools keeps youth vote in the dark
Although 2.4 million teens will have a chance to vote in one of Japan's most pivotal elections ever, most are indifferent because politics is widely ignored in class.
Despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to convince the public otherwise, there is no need at this time to revise the pacifist Constitution.
A majority of the public opposes the prospect of the Abe administration amending the Constitution, the results of a nationwide telephone survey show. The results of the survey, conducted Friday and Saturday by Kyodo News, said about 56.5 percent of the respondents are against the ...
Hundreds of people in Tokyo and Fukushima Prefecture have begun legal action against the government, arguing that the security laws ushered in by the Abe administration violate the Constitution.
