A mix of LDP hubris and inaction contributed to its electoral setback – and the rise of textbook-style populism.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledges to remain in office after his coalition's defeat in upper house elections. Facing internal and external pressures, Ishiba grapples with rising consumer ...

The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...

In a result few predicted, the far-right Sanseito party has come out as one of the main winners in Japan’s upper house ...

The issue of foreigner friendliness is of particular importance to international fund managers who have seen Tokyo lay down ...

Japan's upper house election on Sunday could shake up politics, with rising prices and a populist party gaining ground.

Heading into the most consequential Japanese upper house election in memory and a possible defeat for the coalition of Prime ...

Following similar trends overseas, several Japanese political parties are announcing tougher regulations against foreigners ...

After back-to-back defeats in both houses—a historic first in 70 years for the Liberal Democratic Party—the latest Upper ...

Sanseito, a right-wing populist party in Japan that enthusiastically associates itself with U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

I realized that this word, which literally means “exclusion of foreigners and foreign things,” can be substituted with other ...

This came in response to the surge in online searches following the United Kingdom's move to leave the European Union due to ...