STORY: Yuta Kato is among a growing number of Japanese voters drawn to the far-right Sanseito party, annoyed by foreigners he ...

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

"May I put in my two cents?" A social media post that opens like this, responding to a controversial suggestion Japan should ...

There were two big losers in Sunday’s Upper House elections.The biggest loser was the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which, ...

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

Kamiya won Sanseito’s first upper house seat in 2022. During the campaign, he published a pamphlet that claimed Jewish ...

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

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

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend's upper house election.

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 minor opposition party Sanseito, which is projected to capture double-digit seats in the July 20 Upper House election, ...