{"id":72943,"date":"2025-07-19T09:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/19\/japanese-first-sanseito-party-goes-into-election-leveraging-unease-about-foreigners"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:45:01","slug":"japanese-first-sanseito-party-goes-into-election-leveraging-unease-about-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72943","title":{"rendered":"How Japan\u2019s hard-right populists are profiting from anti-foreign sentiment and a cost of living crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalists win over disaffected first-time voters with a call for a return to family values and curbs on immigration<\/p>\n<p>A far-right populist party promoting a \u201cJapanese-first\u201d agenda was one of the biggest winners in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/20\/apan-pm-election-result-exit-polls-predict-loss-of-upper-house\">Sunday\u2019s upper house elections<\/a>, gaining 14 seats.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 railing against immigration and bringing rhetoric that was once confined to political fringes into the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/19\/japanese-first-sanseito-party-goes-into-election-leveraging-unease-about-foreigners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalists win over disaffected first-time voters with a call for a return to family values and curbs on immigrationA far-right populist party promoting a \u201cJapanese-first\u201d agenda was one of the biggest winners in Sunday\u2019s upper house elections, gaini&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72983,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72943\/revisions\/72983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}