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

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

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

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

The success of Japanese right-wing party Sanseito in Sunday’s upper house election has the potential to unnerve global ...

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･･･ ...

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

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

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Right-wing populist political party Sanseito campaigned on a "Japanese First" platform and significantly increased its ...