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

The LDP’s historic electoral fall exposes a fractured Japan, where public disillusionment, economic woes and rising populism ...

As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya ...

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

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

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.

In Japan's recent parliamentary election, the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba failed to secure a ...

As the United States turns inward under President Donald Trump’s second term, Japan quietly steps up to defend democracy, ...

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

Japan's ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, failed to secure a majority in the upper house election, ...

A mix of LDP hubris and inaction contributed to its electoral setback – and the rise of textbook-style populism.

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