Yuta Kato is increasingly annoyed by foreigners ignorant of Japan's social etiquette, whether that involves blocking the ...

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.

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

Hundreds of people filled the streets outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's office on Friday, urging him not to step down ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation has become unavoidable. The ruling coalition has now suffered crushing defeats in ...

Prospect of a hawkish premier on Japan’s history and China has fuelled online calls for moderate Shigeru Ishiba to stay.

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 ...

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

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

Tackling inflation was a major campaign issue in the Upper House race, with opposition parties having called for reducing or ...

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