How Japan’s hard-right populists are profiting from anti-foreign sentiment and a cost of living crunch
Nationalists win over disaffected first-time voters with a call for a return to family values and curbs on immigration
A far-right populist party promoting a “Japanese-first” agenda was one of the biggest winners in Sunday’s upper house elections, gaining 14 seats.
Set up on YouTube during the Covid-19 pandemic, when it spread conspiracy theories about vaccinations and global elites, Sanseito widened its appeal in the run-up to the vote – railing against immigration and bringing rhetoric that was once confined to political fringes into the mainstream.
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