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 ...

Yuta Kato is increasingly annoyed by foreigners ignorant of Japan's social etiquette, whether that involves blocking the ...

The co-chair of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning atomic bomb survivors' group on July 23 criticized a member of the Sanseito party for declaring J ...

The electoral success reflects a slow shift in attitudes, supported by non-binding legislation that encourages political ...

The Trump effect—embodied in both American policy and its global ideological footprint—has found fertile ground in Japan’s ...