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

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 ...

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

Upper House lawmaker Mizuho Fukushima and her partner, Yuichi Kaido, have been together for about 40 years. They don't celebrate any kind of anniversary, however, because they've never been ...

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 ...

The first is Mizuho Fukushima, a Japanese politician and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Japan, who was fired from her Cabinet post by Japanese PM Hatoyama on Friday for openly protesting ...

On the other hand, Mizuho Fukushima, a lawyer and parliament member in Japan’s upper house, said she thought the sentence was reasonable. The greater gain was that the court “made a decision ...

“It represents a grave threat to journalism because it covers such a wide and vague range of secrets,” said Mizuho Fukushima, a former leader of the opposition Social Democratic 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 ...