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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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