And while the LDP has ruled Japan almost continuously for the last 30 years, it’s now in a precarious position as it prepares to vote for a new party leader on Saturday – mired in scandal, widely unpopular, and abandoned by longtime supporters who have instead flocked to new right-wing parties.

Here’s how the LDP leader remade Japan’s ruling coalition to become the country’s first female Prime Minister.

Japan has an incredibly strong local car market, and while most of the new cars sold there are built locally, the country does import thousands of vehicles every year. Contrary to what most people think, including some policy officials from the Trump ...

For the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents decades ago, this week is perhaps the best shot they’ve had in years of substantive progress.

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In the mid-19th century, Japan was relatively isolated from the Western world. Most Americans knew almost nothing about the country and considered it backward, even barbaric. The two cultures’ differing ideas of sports meant that sumo only added to American views of Japan as strange and uncivilized.