Yuta Kato is increasingly annoyed by foreigners ignorant of Japan's social etiquette, whether that involves blocking the ...

The right-wing populist party Sanseito, which made significant gains in the recent House of Councillors election, removed a ...

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Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya's xenophobic views, antisemitic remarks and emphasis on Japan’s ethnic purity have raised alarms ...

Campaigning under the nationalist slogan “Japanese First,” the party capitalised on growing public frustration with ...

The once fringe Sanseito has become the fourth largest opposition party in parliament by pushing a nationalist "Japanese ...

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.

The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election, gaining support ...

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

In a result few predicted, the far-right Sanseito party has come out as one of the main winners in Japan’s upper house ...

An analysis of voter trends in both parties in the months leading up to the election has indicated a significant shift to ...

The Sanseito party tapped into discontent over issues galvanizing voters worldwide: inflation, immigration and a political ...