But while Japan’s government has long been dominated by the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and main ...

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

TOKYO -- In this video, Tokyo correspondent Shotaro Tani sits down with Romeo Marcantuoni, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, to discuss the ...

Japan’s latest upper-house election felt less like routine business than the season finale of an overlong anime: exhausted ...

In Japan's recent Upper House election, four traditional parties — the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito, the Constitutional ...

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

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

TOKYO -- Winning 25 to 30 seats in Japan's next lower house election is a "realistic" goal for Sanseito, party leader Sohei Kamiya told Nikkei in a recent interview.

There were a few things that might raise eyebrows, but nothing especially scary. Sanseito's published policy platform is ...

Japan's far-right Sanseito party has emerged as a political force after securing a record number of seats in the recent upper ...