[AP/YONHAP] The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election on Sunday, gaining support with warnings of a "silent invasion" of immigrants, and ...

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 ...

A growing number of Japanese voters are being drawn to the far-right Sanseito party, with some annoyed by foreigners they ...

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

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has pledged to stay in office after his ruling coalition lost its majority in the ...

Japan’s prime minister refused to step down despite losing his majority, thanks in part to a surge in hard-Right support. Shigeru Ishiba was asked if he would stay on after exit polls on Sunday night ...

Right-wing firebrands like Javier Milei in Argenitna and Giorgia Meloni of Italy have made strong careers railing against “elitism,” “globalism” and immigration. It’s part of a movement capitalising ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's government and his ruling party may revise plans to deliver cash handouts of 20,000 yen ($135) to every resident of Japan, senior officials said Thursday, as they must ...

The PM's departure less than a year after taking office will trigger a succession battle within the ruling Liberal Democratic party.

Shigeru Ishiba denied he had decided to quit after a source and media reports said he planned to announce his resignation to take responsibility for a bruising upper house election defeat.

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether ...