But recent developments indicate perhaps a return to the racist side of Japan that saw the wholesale slaughter Christians centuries ago and the stampede through Nanjing killing Chinese, seeing them as ...

Sanseito, which is proposing a "Japanese first" policy, has garnered support, and it appears that other conservative parties are also fishing for votes. While foreign workers are increasingly being ...

Preliminary tallies in Japan's snap general election on Sunday indicated that new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's conservative coalition would lose its majority in the Diet's House of Representatives.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday outlined his new economic package, which is being introduced amid dwindling support for the conservative government head's Cabinet. The package, for ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’ s conservative ruling party braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday’s elections amid public rage over ...

Hashimoto, 43, is leader of the Restoration Party and mayor of Osaka, one of Japan’s largest cities. Until recently he was considered a rising star of Japanese politics.