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

But while Japan’s government has long been dominated by the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and main ...

With their "Japanese First" slogan, riffing off US President Donald Trump's "America First", they have truly ruffled the ...

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

Is anti‑foreign sentiment rising in Japan? Is melonpan going to kill you? A quick look at Sanseito and why people are afraid.

Japan's far-right populist Sanseito party was one of the biggest winners in the weekend's upper house election, attracting ...

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

Sanseito, which flies a “Japanese First” banner explicitly inspired by US President Donald Trump, gained 14 seats in the ...

Yuta Kato is increasingly annoyed by foreigners ignorant of Japan's social etiquette, whether that involves blocking the ...

"They are the party of YouTube," said Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies who has authored a book on right-wing politics in Japan.