For three years, a once fringe opposition party held just one seat in Japan's 248-seat upper house.Sanseito emerged as one of ...

Who Is Sōhei Kamiya? Formed in 2020 with dissatisfied citizens who wanted 'Japanese First', his party, Sanseitō, won 14–15 seats in upper house, eroding PM Ishiba’s majority ...

The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Cabinet dipped to a record-low 23 percent, according to a ...

Populist Sanseito’s rise is eroding the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s dominance and reshaping Japan’s traditionally staid ...

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

Internal rivals and a resurgent nationalist right are jeopardising Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's already precarious ...

Exit polls suggest Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition is likely to lose a majority its majority in the smaller of ...

Ishiba's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito were short three seats to maintain a ...

Japan’s elections on Sunday saw the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party lose its longstanding majority, while a far-right nationalist party — founded on YouTube — gained ground. With an an ...

Anti-establishment parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite struck a chord with working-age ...

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

Japan’s relatively new Sanseito party won 14 seats in Sunday’s election, a sizable gain for the party. Its platform includes a "Japanese first" agenda.