Elected the chairperson of the Japan Socialist Party in 1986, Doi Takako (born 1928) led the party to larger victories at the polls and in a financial revival of the party, but was forced to resign in 1991. She also mobilized Japanese women. Doi Takako...

All aboard the Doi express NO ONE used to pay much attention to the Japan Socialist party. This week one of its candidates for the upper-house election on July 23rd showed how times have changed. On his way to a meeting the...

Why Doi's run might end before it begins WITH one foot snared by the past, it is hard to keep a steady eye on the future. So Miss Takako Doi found this week. Miss Doi leads the Socialists, Japan's biggest opposition party....