{"id":73061,"date":"2025-07-25T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/25\/japan-upper-house-election-sanseito-japanese-first"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:36:59","slug":"japanese-first-breakthrough-by-rightwing-populists-sparks-fears-of-anti-foreigner-backlash-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73061","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Japanese First\u2019: breakthrough by rightwing populists sparks fears of anti-foreigner backlash in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say the Japanese are suffering a crisis of confidence that is feeding xenophobia amid economic insecurity and a record number of foreign residents <\/p>\n<p>The emergence of a rightwing populist party in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/20\/apan-pm-election-result-exit-polls-predict-loss-of-upper-house\">Japan\u2019s upper house election<\/a> on Sunday running on a Trump-style \u201cJapanese First\u201d slogan has raised concerns of a backlash against the growing foreign presence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The party, Sanseito, has successfully tapped into unease around an expanding immigrant population and a huge influx of tourists after the pandemic. But many see the underlying cause as economic insecurity among a population that both understands the need for overseas labour and visitors, and feels anxiety at the changes they bring and symbolise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/25\/japan-upper-house-election-sanseito-japanese-first\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say the Japanese are suffering a crisis of confidence that is feeding xenophobia amid economic insecurity and a record number of foreign residents The emergence of a rightwing populist party in Japan\u2019s upper house election on Sunday running on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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":[41,88,1218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-the-far-right"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73061","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73062,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73061\/revisions\/73062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}