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

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

Sanseito, a Japanese populist party that draws inspiration from Donald Trump's politics, is gaining support ahead of Sunday's ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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