“Kamiya sort of positions himself as a mini-Trump,” Kingston, the Asian studies professor, tells TIME. “He’s appealing to the ...

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

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

Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tomohiko Taniguchi, former Special Adviser to the late Shinzo Abe and Mira Rapp-Hooper, ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

A growing number of Japanese voters are being drawn to the far-right Sanseito party, with some annoyed by foreigners they ...