Support fading for Japan’s top party For more than a half-century, this city in rural western Japan has been a political stronghold of the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party, as unshakable as the stone battlements of the medieval castle overlooking its downtown.By: Martin Fackler|Date: Aug 6, 2009

Japanese voters give opposition a landslide victory TOKYO - Japan’s voters cast out the Liberal Democratic Party for only the second time in postwar history yesterday, handing a landslide victory to a party that campaigned on a promise to reverse a generation-long economic decline and redefine Tokyo’s relationship with Washington.By: Martin Fackler|Date: Aug 31, 2009

Descriptions of Matsue, Japan by Lafcadio Hearn, the Irish-Greek author and muckraking journalist, put this medieval city on the map in the 1890s.By: Martin Fackler|Date: Feb 20, 2007

...I want to put him down as fast as possible." Dr. Martin Fackler, a former combat surgeon and a leading authority on...tissue, the more it's going to fragment," says Fackler. "Bullets that go faster cause more damage. It...By: Richard Lardner|Date: May 27, 2008

TOKYO -- A new star seems to be rising in space exploration: Japan.

Over the past 40 years, Japan has built up one of the world's leading space programs, and it has done it with low budgets, no manned flights, and little fanfare -- until two milestone missions this week.

By: Martin Fackler, Associated Press|Date: Jul 8, 1998

TOKYO -- Hurt by embarrassing policy flip-flops and an ailing economy, members of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's ruling party said yesterday it would be a victory just to break even in key elections this weekend.

Just last week, Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers were boldly saying their party would win 69 of the 126 seats in Sunday's elections for the upper house of Japan's Parliament.

By: Martin Fackler, Associated Press|Date: Jul 11, 1998

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