Japan's far-right Sanseito party has emerged as a political force after securing a record number of seats in the recent upper ...

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

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.

Sanseito, a Japanese populist party that draws inspiration from Donald Trump's politics, is gaining support ahead of Sunday's ...

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

Japan held elections for its upper house, the House of Councillors, on July 20. The vote proved a challenge for the ...

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

A right-wing populist party, Sanseito, led by a former supermarket manager, has surprisingly won big in Japan's recent ...

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

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a critical challenge in the upper house election. A loss would deepen political ...

Japanese markets were closed for a holiday, but the rise in the yen and Nikkei futures showed investors had already priced in ...

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