Will Japan become the latest country to fall to the populist right? - Japan’s right wing Sanseito party made surprise gains ...

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

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 ...

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

Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus ...

For many years, it has been common knowledge that Japan is the only Group of Seven member that is immune to political populism. This conventional wisdom is now being shaken up.

In Japan's recent parliamentary election, the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba failed to secure a ...

Populism fails to catch fire in Japan. ... Equally puzzling for Western journalists, it seems, is the fact that Japan appears immune to this global trend. After all, ...

These groups include Japan’s #MeToo movement and a new party aimed at protecting Japan’s commitment to pacifism, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. These movements’ aims signal a more ...

While populism is rising across the world, Japan has so far been immune to it. There is no Japanese equivalent to Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, or Rodrigo Duterte. This, however, seems to be ...

Japan’s populism leads to mounting government debt and short-term solutions for immediate issues without a clear long-term vision for recovery. This is not unique to Japan.