A Japanese political party seemingly inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda made significant gains in the country’s parliamentary elections on Sunday. Japan’s ...

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

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

An upstart party is gaining support ahead of elections in Japan by railing against a 'silent invasion' of immigrants, pushing ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty.

The political dominance of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has been remarkable. Despite incessant internal jockeying that has often led to a revolving door of leaders (a problem that remains ...

Now, the Liberal Democrats — the political party that had governed Japan for all but four years since 1955 — has lost its majority in the powerful lower chamber of Parliament, leaving the ...