Japan's opposition Sanseito party has informed news organizations that preregistration is required for attendance at regular press conferences by its leader, fueling concern that it is undermining ...

Eight of the 125 successful candidates in the July House of Councillors election believe Japan should arm itself with nuclear ...

A reporter from the Kanagawa Shimbun newspaper was expelled from a regular press conference held by the right-wing populist ...

On July 21, the day after the pivotal Upper House election, a fervent crowd surged in front of Tokyo’s JR Shinbashi Station ...

The political battles now raging in Japan in the aftermath of the July Upper House election are being waged across many ...

After about a century of anti-Western right-wing nationalism, the Sanseito party has achieved electoral success by blaming ...

A Japanese politician who campaigns against discrimination is refusing to “shut up” after her local assembly passed a motion ...

Now, it is the turn of Japan, and history comes full circle. The country is fast catching the contagion of Far-Right ideology ...

Japan’s population fell by a record amount — more than 900,000 people — in 2024, official data showed, as the East Asian ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s power waned as the LDP and Komeito lost their upper house majority in Japan’s July 20 ...

The bombings created a new class of people called hibakusha. These were victims who often died in great pain in the days, ...

Two weeks after he posted“mission accomplished” on X, Japanese trade negotiator Akazawa Ryosei is back in Washington DC for ...