"May I put in my two cents?" A social media post that opens like this, responding to a controversial suggestion Japan should ...

A postelection survey conducted by Kyodo News showed Friday that 56.4 percent of House of Councillors members do not favor a ...

Kamiya won Sanseito’s first upper house seat in 2022. During the campaign, he published a pamphlet that claimed Jewish ...

A growing number of Japanese voters are drawn to the right-wing Sanseito party. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Sanseito's emergence has caught Japan's community of foreign residents by surprise, with the party's anti-foreigner rhetoric causing concern among many Japanese and non-Japanese alike.

The high-stakes recall election to oust Kuomintang lawmakers could give President Lai Ching-te's Democratic Progressive Party ...

There were two big losers in Sunday’s Upper House elections.The biggest loser was the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future is uncertain, but an unlikely campaign for him to stay was growing online ...

Please log in to Nikkei Asia and stay up to date with the latest developments. 1. Sunday's upper house election in Japan marked a historic turning point, with the long-dominant Liberal Democratic ...

The election results were a clear repudiation of the ruling coalition. The LDP won 39 seats, a loss of 13 from the previous ...

Fears of a ‘far-right’ government have sparked an unlikely online campaign, even among political opponents, urging Shigeru ...

The prospect of someone as premier with hawkish views on Japanese history and China has fuelled online calls for the moderate ...