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

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The once fringe Sanseito has become the fourth largest opposition party in parliament by pushing a nationalist "Japanese ...

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election. Sanseito ...

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The co-chair of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning atomic bomb survivors' group on July 23 criticized a member of the Sanseito party for declaring J･･･ ...

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Right-wing populist political party Sanseito campaigned on a "Japanese First" platform and significantly increased its ...

Birthed on YouTube spreading Covid-19 conspiracy theories, the party broke into mainstream politics with its populist ...