With their "Japanese First" slogan, riffing off US President Donald Trump's "America First", they have truly ruffled the ...

Sohei Kamiya's Sanseitō Party won 14 seats in Japan's Upper House elections, appealing to young voters with a "Japanese first ...

Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus ...

For three years, a once fringe opposition party held just one seat in Japan's 248-seat upper house. But on Sunday, Sanseito ...

A mix of LDP hubris and inaction contributed to its electoral setback – and the rise of textbook-style populism.

Sanseitō, an ultranationalist populist party, gained in Japan’s elections after framing immigration as a central issue.

As the United States turns inward under President Donald Trump’s second term, Japan quietly steps up to defend democracy, ...

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.

In Japan's recent parliamentary election, the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba failed to secure a ...

As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya ...

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

The LDP’s historic electoral fall exposes a fractured Japan, where public disillusionment, economic woes and rising populism ...