Democratic Party of Japan

TOKYO  — Japan began excavations Monday at a former medical school to search for human remains that experts link to a notorious World War II program…

LONDON – A student leader was rescued by police at a protest in Manchester on Saturday after he was surrounded and subjected to anti-Semitic abuse by…

TOKYO — Japan's  Cabinet resigned en masse Friday as the prime minister reshuffles his lineup in a bid to revive the struggling economy and open up…

TOKYO — Japan's justice minister resigned Monday over comments that made light of his duty to respond to questioning in parliament, a blow to the…

TOKYO — Japan's Cabinet resigned en masse Friday to make way for a revamped administration after Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived the ruling party's…

TOKYO — Japan's ruling Democrats lost seats in a parliamentary election Sunday, according to media exit polls, dealing a setback to the progressive…

TOKYO — Finance Minister Naoto Kan elected as Japan's prime minister, after ruling Democratic party selected him as leader. …

TOKYO — A small party decided to leave Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's ruling coalition over his broken campaign promise to move a US Marine…

Following a season in which the top stories in the Hebrew press were about the deterioration of relations with key allies, a surprising anniversary…

Japan's newly empowered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers and start making good on promises to revive the world's…

Japan's ruling party conceded a crushing defeat Sunday after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule as voters were poised to hand the opposition a…

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told ruling party leaders Monday he will dissolve parliament and hold general elections next month, following a…

Protected by a massive police cordon, pro-Israeli groups rallied in London and Manchester on Sunday, a day after violent clashes erupted at an…

HANUKKA IS almost upon us, and for just over a week, those of us who light candles each night recall the miracles that saved the Jewish people from…

The UN General Assembly resoundingly rejected Iran's bid for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council, with the 158 countries voting for rival…

Japan's opposition demanded on Tuesday that a rising figure in the ruling bloc retract comments comparing their party's tactics in parliament to…

Japan's upper house of parliament voted Wednesday to halt the air force's transport mission in Iraq, intensifying the opposition bloc's standoff with…

Yasuo Fukuda, a quiet compromiser who has promised to bring stability and moderation to Japan's tumultuous political scene, was elected prime…

An Israeli scholar has firmly rejected comments by controversial UK Liberal Democrat politician Jenny Tonge, who recently accused Israel of driving…

The upper house of Japan's Parliament elected a Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker as its president Tuesday, the first time an opposition member has…