Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future is uncertain but an unlikely campaign for him to stay was growing online this ...

Campaigning under the nationalist slogan “Japanese First,” the party capitalised on growing public frustration with ...

The right-wing populist party Sanseito made big strides in parliamentary elections in Japan, capitalizing on concerns about the economy, immigration and overtourism.

"They are the party of YouTube," said Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies who has authored ...

There were two big losers in Sunday’s Upper House elections.The biggest loser was the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which, ...

Japan's far-right Sanseito party has emerged as a political force after securing a record number of seats in the recent upper ...

Kamiya won Sanseito’s first upper house seat in 2022. During the campaign, he published a pamphlet that claimed Jewish ...

The July 20 House of Councillors election showed that the foundation of Japan’s political order has crumbled. Japan, which ...

The rise of the right-wing populist party Sanseito in the Japanese upper house election has sparked fears of anti-foreigner ...

The prospect of someone as premier with hawkish views on Japanese history and China has fuelled online calls for the moderate ...

Sanseito's emergence has caught Japan's community of foreign residents by surprise, with the party's anti-foreigner rhetoric causing concern among many Japanese and non-Japanese alike.

The right-wing populist party Sanseito, which made significant gains in the recent House of Councillors election, removed a ...