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 ...

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

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

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

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.

In a significant political shift, Prime Minister Ishiba's coalition lost its majority in Japan's upper house, marking the ...

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

The opposition party Sanseito made a strong showing in the July 20 House of Councillors election in both constituency and ...