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

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

Japanese politics is different in many ways, but in one, it’s having what appears to be an analogous moment: “Honestly ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

"They are the party of YouTube," said Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies who has authored ...

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

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