On July 19, the night before Japan’s Upper House election, opposition party Sanseito held its final rally at Tokyo’s Shiba Park, attracting a crowd of over 10,000. While Japanese flags waved in ...

TOKYO — Japan’s far-right populist Sanseito party was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election, attracting many voters with its “Japanese First” platform that ...

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

Sanseito, a far-right nationalist group founded just four years ago, walked away from Sunday’s upper house election with 14 seats, a surprising leap from the single seat it held since 2022.

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election. Sanseito attracted many voters with its “Japanese First” platform that called ...

Japan's far-right populist Sanseito party was one of the biggest winners in the weekend's upper house election, attracting many voters with its “Japanese First" platform that included calling ...