But while Japan’s government has long been dominated by the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and main ...

Is anti‑foreign sentiment rising in Japan? Is melonpan going to kill you? A quick look at Sanseito and why people are afraid.

TOKYO -- In this video, Tokyo correspondent Shotaro Tani sits down with Romeo Marcantuoni, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, to discuss the ...

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

Japan’s latest upper-house election felt less like routine business than the season finale of an overlong anime: exhausted ...

Sanseito, which flies a “Japanese First” banner explicitly inspired by US President Donald Trump, gained 14 seats in the ...

Just over half of Japanese voters approve of the surge by Sanseito, an Asahi Shimbun poll found, after the party known for ...

Nearly half of people in Japan expect little from Sanseito, the populist party that made significant gains in the latest ...

TOKYO -- Winning 25 to 30 seats in Japan's next lower house election is a "realistic" goal for Sanseito, party leader Sohei Kamiya told Nikkei in a recent interview.

EDITORIAL. The ruling coalition's loss of a majority in the House of Councillors in the July 20 elections and the breakthrough of the ultra-conservative Sanseito party have triggered an unprecedented ...