The SDP exists to prevent people from starving and the country from going into war, said party leader Mizuho Fukushima.

Campaigning officially started on July 3 for an Upper House election that could further upend the power structure in Japanese ...

TOKYO — Like many people, Mizuho Fukushima is quite attached to her name--and wants to remain so. When she met her prospective husband, Yuichi Kaido, more than 20 years ago, giving up her ...

English remarks made recently by Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People, a Japanese opposition party, ...

Mizuho Fukushima, the leader of the Japanese Social Democratic Party (SDP), revealed to the Global Times in a written interview that, during her trip in China from Thursday to Saturday, she wants ...

Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party, has long been active in dealing with humanitarian and women's issues, ranging from sexual harassment to domestic violence to foreigners ...

TOKYO (AP) — A small party decided to leave Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's ruling coalition over his broken campaign promise to move a U.S. Marine base off Okinawa island, as he faced ...

Dozens of protesters stood outside the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday to oppose the Cabinet decision. An opposition leader, Mizuho Fukushima, said the decision was not based on public ...

Japan's Cabinet on Friday formally decided to hold a state funeral on Sept. 27 for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe amid national debate over the plan, which some criticize as an ...