Liberal Democratic Party

...have lost market share or have failed to compete with foreign rivals. Ikuma blames the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the LDP for upholding policies that catered to conventional industries and failed to support the new...

In this article: Yukio Hatoyama, Global warming, Japan, Carbon, Taro Aso, and Climate change

...plenary sessions. With the Diet now apparently on track back to normalcy, the way may be clear for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Liberal Democratic Party leader Sadakazu Tanigaki to engage in a one-on-one debate. Irregularities...

In this article: Diet, Democratic Party of Japan, Ichiro Ozawa, Yukio Hatoyama, Cash flow, and Sadakazu Tanigaki

...election in the upper house in the summer. Publicity about the pact is almost certain to embarrass the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which until this fall had ruled Japan as a virtual one-party state for nearly half a century and...

In this article: Japan, United States, Yukio Hatoyama, Democratic Party of Japan, Barack Obama, Okinawa, and Tokyo

...in fiscal policy, has adopted the kind of heavy-handed approach towards the BOJ that governments under the long-ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party used to influence monetary policy. The BOJ has avoided a direct confrontation...

In this article: Bank of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Japan, Recession, Deflation, Masaaki Shirakawa, Okinawa, and Democratic Party

...2009: The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) wins national election, ending five decades of almost constant rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). [ID:nT356076] Sept 1: BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa says he has met with Japan's next...

In this article: Bank of Japan, DPJ, Deflation, Japan, Recession, and Masaaki Shirakawa

...it looks as if it could suffer a total collapse or disintegration. Nearly three months after the Democratic Party of Japan unseated the LDP, the new government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama still appears too shaky to garner much voter...

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan, Sadakazu Tanigaki, Zenko Suzuki, Conservatism, Kakuei Tanaka, Katsuya Okada, and Diet

Two days after the Aug. 30 Lower House election ended decades of power by the Liberal Democratic Party, the LDP-led government withdrew YEN250 million from a controversial Cabinet secret fund, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said...

In this article: Hirofumi Hirano, Democratic Party of Japan, LDP, Fiscal year, and Yukio Hatoyama

...administration came into being that the DPJ has railroaded passage of a bill. When it was in the opposition, the DPJ used to criticize the LDP for pushing bills through without due deliberations. Now the DPJ is employing the same tactics. The...

In this article: Democratic Party of Japan, Diet, Yukio Hatoyama, Komeito, Cash flow, and Koichiro Genba

...who was in charge of record-keeping, is arrested but it is unclear how big a blow a resignation would be for the Democrats, since the LDP has yet to recover from its huge election loss. Polls show voters supporting the Democrats for...

In this article: Yukio Hatoyama, Japan, Deflation, Recession, Bank of Japan, United States, and Okinawa

...end the LDP's almost unbroken rule since 1955. Mori claims this media hype helped oust the LDP from power in the poll. Mori lamented that many of the LDP's younger, talented lawmakers lacked sufficient public exposure, while the DPJ seemed...

In this article: Yoshiro Mori, Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Ichiro Ozawa, U.S., Okinawa, The Japan Times, Japan, and Okinawa Island