STORY: Yuta Kato is among a growing number of Japanese voters drawn to the far-right Sanseito party, annoyed by foreigners he ...

Kamiya won Sanseito’s first upper house seat in 2022. During the campaign, he published a pamphlet that claimed Jewish ...

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

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

Campaigning under the nationalist slogan “Japanese First,” the party capitalised on growing public frustration with ...

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

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

The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election, gaining support ...

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.

An analysis of voter trends in both parties in the months leading up to the election has indicated a significant shift to ...

The Sanseito party tapped into discontent over issues galvanizing voters worldwide: inflation, immigration and a political ...