{"id":74326,"date":"2025-09-19T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/19\/japanese-first-sohei-kamiya-sanseito-party-nationalist-mini-trump-population-crisis-bites"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:27:08","slug":"japanese-first-the-mini-trump-on-the-rise-as-population-crisis-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74326","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Japanese first\u2019: the mini-Trump on the rise as population crisis bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nationalist policies of Sohei Kamiya\u2019s party, Sanseito, are drawing a mix of youth voters, disaffected conservatives and conspiracy theorists<\/p>\n<p>Sleeves rolled up and perched atop his campaign vehicle, Sohei Kamiya was a familiar sight in Tokyo as he railed against the political establishment in the run-up to Japan\u2019s upper house elections. He drew applause from admirers, and grimaces from those fearful of his divisive brand of \u201cJapanese first\u201d politics \u2013 inspired by his natural ally, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Kamiya\u2019s political party, Sanseito \u2013 literally the \u201cpolitical participation party\u201d \u2013 has been described as far-right, ultraconservative and nationalist \u2013 with migrants, the \u201cliberal elite\u201d and foreign capital the objects of its anger. Its nickname \u2013 the do-it-yourself party \u2013 speaks to its role, it says, as a place for self-starters who have grown tired of the Japanese political mainstream.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/19\/japanese-first-sohei-kamiya-sanseito-party-nationalist-mini-trump-population-crisis-bites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nationalist policies of Sohei Kamiya\u2019s party, Sanseito, are drawing a mix of youth voters, disaffected conservatives and conspiracy theoristsSleeves rolled up and perched atop his campaign vehicle, Sohei Kamiya was a familiar sight in Tokyo as he r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74326","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74327,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74326\/revisions\/74327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}