TOKYO, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama, who steered his party to a landslide 308-seat win in Japan's elections, was expected to take over as the next prime minister.
TOKYO, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Japan's opposition leader, writing in a magazine ahead of the Aug. 30 elections, says the era of "U.S.-led globalism" is coming to end.
TOKYO, June 18 (UPI) -- The president of the Japan Post Holding Co. offered to discipline himself over a contract scandal that helped push the internal affairs minister to resign.
TOKYO, June 15 (UPI) -- An opposition candidate won Japan's Chiba city mayoral poll, trouncing his opponent backed by Prime Minister Taro Aso's ruling coalition.
TOKYO, June 12 (UPI) -- Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama, a close ally of Prime Minister Taro Aso, quit Friday in a setback for the government.
TOKYO, May 31 (UPI) -- Japan's main opposition party has indicated it may consider a censure or a no-confidence motion if Prime Minister Taro Aso puts off elections until August.
TOKYO, May 17 (UPI) -- More Japanese want opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama to be their next prime minister than incumbent Taro Aso, a Kyodo news agency survey said.
TOKYO, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Former Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso Monday was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party, a step toward his becoming Japan's prime minister.
