“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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...