Their combined strength in the 248-seat chamber shrank to 122, down from 141 earlier.Despite this setback, Ishiba says he is not resigning, vowing to focus on trade negotiations with Donald Trump amid ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a press conference at the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Tokyo Monday, July 21, 2025 after the prime minister' ...

Populist ideals are gaining traction in Japan, spurred by right-wing politicians running rampant elsewhere railing against ...

Sanseito, a new far-right party with a charismatic leader, Sohei Kamiya, came up big in Japan's parliamentary election by ...

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

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

Sanseito, a right-wing populist party in Japan that enthusiastically associates itself with U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” ethos, caused a minor earthquake in the parliament’s upper ...

The leader of Sanseito, who came in third place in the recent elections in Japan, emulates the President of the United States ...

It won its first seat in the upper house in 2022, following a campaign in which it fashioned itself as an "anti-globalist" party. Supporters at rallies spoke of a world where a cabal of globalists and ...

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

We want to protect the people’s livelihood,” said Sohei Kamiya, head of Sanseito, in Saitama City. The party leaders also engaged in a war of words over the Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations on NHK and ...

We want to protect the people’s livelihood,” said Sohei Kamiya, head of Sanseito, in Saitama City. The party leaders also engaged in a war of words over the Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations on NHK and ...