A new party has come on the scene in Japan, fed by widespread disenchantment with both the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). When the Kyodo news service asked ...

Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leaders Toru Hashimoto and Shintaro Ishihara agreed Wednesday to split the second-largest opposition party in two — a move that is likely to shake up ...

A debate between Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto and Makoto Sakurai, the leader of an anti-Korean group, ended not long after it started. The two participants, who were discussing hate speech, had to be ...

One of Japan's leading politicans has apoligised for suggesting US servicemen should visit brothels in his prefecture - but stopped short of apologising for saying that wartime sex slaves were a ...

Just how little influential political or intellectual opposition in Japan is there to fundamentally conservative politics and economic theories touting the wisdom of the corporate mentality? Well ...

Toru Hashimoto OSAKA (TR) – The deceased father and uncle of Osaka mayoral candidate Toru Hashimoto were gangsters, revelations that could influence the 42-year-old’s campaign, reports Nikkan Gendai ...

Toru Hashimoto, the mayor of Osaka and co-leader of the nationalist Japan Restoration Party who made remarks that angered China and Korea earlier this week, took to Twitter to point fingers at the ...

LOCALS in Osaka, Japan’s second city, are glued to their television screens watching the spring sumo-wrestling tournament. The final round falls on March 23rd. They are considerably less enthralled by ...

Japan's Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (L), accompanied by Osaka Governor Ichiro Matsui (R), speaks to reporters in Tokyo in April 2012. The 42-year-old former corporate lawyer thinks Japan needs a ...

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