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

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

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 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 ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's future is uncertain but an unlikely campaign for him to stay was growing online this ...

Japan’s far-right populist Sanseito party was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election, attracting many voters with its “Japanese First” platform that ...

The electoral success reflects a slow shift in attitudes, supported by non-binding legislation that encourages political ...

The minority government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is under pressure to quickly decide on how to respond to the ...

The populist surge on the right is a familiar electoral feature across the West. Gains by the far right in Japan show its ...

The roots of Japan’s economic problems go back to the late 1980s, when the nation suddenly went from challenging US economic ...