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Far-right 'Japanese First' party Sanseito emerges as fourth-largest opposition force in parliament
Campaigning under the nationalist slogan “Japanese First,” the party capitalised on growing public frustration with ...
Will Japan become the latest country to fall to the populist right?
Japan’s right wing Sanseito party made surprise gains in Sunday’s election after running an anti-foreigner campaign ...
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DPP backers abandoned party for Sanseito in Upper House poll, analysis shows
An analysis of voter trends in both parties in the months leading up to the election has indicated a significant shift to ...
Rising Sanseito party to target protection of state secrets
The surge in support for Sanseito and the Democratic Party for the People on July 20 was largely thanks to veteran ...
Sanseito’s ‘Japanese First’ gains traction amid concerns over immigration, economy
Birthed on YouTube spreading Covid-19 conspiracy theories, the party broke into mainstream politics with its populist ...
Japan's Ishiba says he will decide on resignation over election loss after studying US tariff deal
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, under growing pressure to step down over the historic loss of his ruling party in a ...
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‘Japanese First’: The deep roots of the rising far right
Japan’s far-right Sanseito party won a record number of seats in the country’s recent upper-house elections, stripping the ...
Sanseito, the ‘Japanese first’ party that emerged through YouTube during Covid-19, deals big blow to Japan PM Ishiba’s coalition
In a significant political shift, Prime Minister Ishiba's coalition lost its majority in Japan's upper house, marking the ...