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For three years, a once fringe opposition party held just one seat in Japan's 248-seat upper house. But on Sunday, Sanseito ...
Japan's far-right Sanseito party has emerged as a political force after securing a record number of seats in the recent upper ...
As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya ...
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 ...
Sanseitō, an ultranationalist populist party, gained in Japan’s elections after framing immigration as a central issue.
The LDP’s historic electoral fall exposes a fractured Japan, where public disillusionment, economic woes and rising populism ...
The once fringe Sanseito has become the fourth largest opposition party in parliament by pushing a nationalist "Japanese ...
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 electoral success reflects a slow shift in attitudes, supported by non-binding legislation that encourages political ...
Japanese markets were closed for a holiday, but the rise in the yen and Nikkei futures showed investors had already priced in ...
Japan held elections for its upper house, the House of Councillors, on July 20. The vote proved a challenge for the ...