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Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right
The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...
Far-right Sanseito party wins shock electoral gains in Japan on anti-foreigner platform
A once fringe opposition party in Japan has become the fourth largest in parliament by pushing a nationalist "Japanese First" ...
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Japan PM plans to resign after election debacle: local media
Having done a trade deal with US President Donald Trump, Japan's prime minister will soon announce his resignation, reports ...
How a far-right ‘Japanese First’ party made big election gains
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya's xenophobic views, antisemitic remarks and emphasis on Japan’s ethnic purity have raised alarms ...
Politically bruised, Japan’s Ishiba to resign as PM next month over defeat in Senate vote
The news of Ishiba’s resignation came hours after Japan secured a trade deal with the US that cut a threatened 25-per-cent ...
Japan's Ishiba could resign in August, local media reports
The reports come after Trump announced a trade deal with Japan, and days after Ishiba’s governing coalition lost its majority ...
Japan's PM Shigeru Ishiba set to announce resignation next month after upper house election loss, new trade deal with US
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is set to announce that he will step down from the top job, according to local media.
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Chances Japanese PM Ishiba will resign seen mounting
TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday found the window rapidly closing for him to stay on as the ...
Trump-inspired 'Japanese First' party gains ground in Japan
Sanseito, a Japanese populist party that draws inspiration from Donald Trump's politics, is gaining support ahead of Sunday's ...
Young Voters Are Pulling Japan to the Right. But How Far?
Anti-establishment parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite struck a chord with working-age ...
How did a right-wing populist party that began on YouTube win big in Japan’s recent election?
Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus ...
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Japan's Ruling Party Loses Grip As Trump Tariff Deadline Looms: What Happens Next?
The road to Japan’s trade deal with the U.S. just got longer and more winding as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s coalition ...