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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 prospect of someone as premier with hawkish views on Japanese history and China has fuelled online calls for the moderate ...

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

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･･･ ...

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

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