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Japan’s Ruling Party Took a Heavy Blow From the Voters
In a global year of elections, Japan’s long-serving Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has suffered its second-worst result on ...
How Delta Air Lines’ Ed Bastian Saved Private Jet Company Wheels Up
From the sale of Delta Private Jets to Wheels Up in 2019, through the premature reports of its demise, and what's next, four ...
The Diplomat24d
The Transformation of Japanese Politics and New Japan-Taiwan Relations
Excepting the period during which the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) held power ... One could even argue that the new administration has made evident its antagonism toward the Seiwa Kai, for ...
The Washington Post19d
Japan’s long-ruling party loses majority in stunning election defeat
SEOUL — Japan’s ruling party on Sunday lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 15 years, a stunning upset that threatens the future of the new prime ... by the DPJ, the LDP ...
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Editorial: Voter verdict on money scandal knocks out LDP majority in Japan lower house
After Abe was assassinated, the LDP's deep ties with the Unification Church, formally the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification ... former prime minister under the DPJ government, as its ...
Mint9d
Japan’s Tamaki Plays High-Risk Game With Weakened Premier Ishiba
Tamaki, 55, was first elected to parliament in 2009 as a DPJ member after an elite trajectory that saw him pass through the University of Tokyo, the Finance Ministry and Harvard Kennedy School.
Gulf News23d
Something for everyone: Why Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is so successful
in a severe blow to new premier Shigeru Ishiba Image Credit: AFP TOKYO: Japan's LDP is one of the democratic world's most successful parties, a one-size-fits-all electoral machine in power for all ...
The Associated Press on MSN23d
Japan's ruling party may struggle in Sunday's vote, but its decades of dominance won't end
Many credit the LDP with leading Japan's astonishing recovery after the war, when the nation became one of the world’s ...
WPLG23d
Japan's ruling party may struggle in Sunday's vote, but its decades of dominance won't end
Many credit the LDP with leading Japan's astonishing recovery after the war, when the nation became one of the world’s biggest ... coalition led by the Japan New Party after two high-profile ...