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

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

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

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

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

Populist ideals are gaining traction in Japan, spurred by right-wing politicians running rampant elsewhere railing against ...

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

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.

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

Japan's ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, failed to secure a majority in the upper house election, ...

Japanese markets were closed for a holiday, but the rise in the yen and Nikkei futures showed investors had already priced in ...