Japan’s right wing Sanseito party made surprise gains in Sunday’s election after running an anti-foreigner campaign ...

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

As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya ...

Sanseitō, an ultranationalist populist party, gained in Japan’s elections after framing immigration as a central issue.

For three years, a once fringe opposition party held just one seat in Japan's 248-seat upper house. But on Sunday, Sanseito ...

Populist ideals are gaining traction in Japan, spurred by right-wing politicians running rampant elsewhere railing against ...

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 fringe far-right Sanseito party, originating from YouTube and inspired by Trump, made significant electoral gains in Japan's upper house election by promoting anti-globalist rhetoric. The party ...

The Sanseito party is surging in polls with anti-immigration talk, but its rise is likely just a short-lived protest vote ...

In Japan's recent parliamentary election, the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba failed to secure a ...

So, if you want to think about right wing populism as a kind of a simplistic campaign package roughly what they say is, “Look, the nation is not what it used to be. We have lost our way. We’re ...