The prospect of someone as premier with hawkish views on Japanese history and China has fuelled online calls for the moderate ...

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

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

Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya and other party lawmakers and candidates have raised concerns about Chinese buying up land and ...

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

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

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 ...

U.S. Congress and the American public support a stronger alliance with Japan, and the Trump administration’s own strategy to ...