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 ...

Japan’s right wing Sanseito party made surprise gains in Sunday’s election after running an anti-foreigner campaign ...

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

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

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

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.

Japan’s far-right Sanseito party won a record number of seats in the country’s recent upper-house elections, stripping the ...

The Sanseito party is surging in polls with anti-immigration talk, but its rise is likely just a short-lived protest vote ...

Populist ideals are gaining traction in Japan, spurred by right-wing politicians running rampant elsewhere railing against “elitism,” “globalism” and immigration. While Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru ...

Anti-establishment parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite struck a chord with working-age ...

Japan held elections for its upper house, the House of Councillors, on July 20. The vote proved a challenge for the ...