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Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right
The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...
A Populist Party That Began on YouTube Helped Disrupt Japan’s Ruling Coalition
The Sanseito party tapped into discontent over issues galvanizing voters worldwide: inflation, immigration and a political ...
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What’s Next? Japanese Voters Hand the LDP Yet Another Loss
Japan’s voters dealt Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with yet another devastating blow on ...
Young Voters Are Pulling Japan to the Right. But How Far?
Anti-establishment parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite struck a chord with working-age ...
How did a right-wing populist party that began on YouTube win big in Japan’s recent election?
Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus ...
Japan’s Leader Has Lost His ‘Mandate of Heaven’
Shigeru Ishiba is clinging on to power after the latest rebuke from the electorate. With crucial trade talks on the line, ...
'Japanese First' party emerges as election force with tough immigration talk
The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election on Sunday, gaining support with warnings of a "silent invasion" of immigrants, and pledges for ...
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‘Japanese First’: Right-Leaning Party That Few Had Heard of Echoes Themes Being Sounded in America by Trump
The era of predictable elections is over, though Prime Minister Ishiba vows to remain in office. Mr. Kirk, based in Seoul and ...