Yuta Kato is increasingly annoyed by foreigners ignorant of Japan's social etiquette, whether that involves blocking the ...

The right-wing populist party Sanseito, which made significant gains in the recent House of Councillors election, removed a ...

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

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

Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya's xenophobic views, antisemitic remarks and emphasis on Japan’s ethnic purity have raised alarms ...

Birthed on YouTube spreading Covid-19 conspiracy theories, the party broke into mainstream politics with its populist ...

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

The co-chair of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning atomic bomb survivors' group on July 23 criticized a member of the Sanseito party for declaring J･･･ ...

The Sanseito party tapped into discontent over issues galvanizing voters worldwide: inflation, immigration and a political ...

The small rightwing populist party led by firebrand Sohei Kamiya won 14 seats in Sunday’s Upper House election.

In a result few predicted, the far-right Sanseito party has come out as one of the main winners in Japan’s upper house ...