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Japan’s anti-foreigner politics on the rise as right-wing party wins votes online - Sanseito party, most popular among younger male voters, won 14 seats in Sunday's upper house vote
Sanseitō, an ultranationalist populist party, gained in Japan’s elections after framing immigration as a central issue.
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Japan’s right wing Sanseito party made surprise gains in Sunday’s election after running an anti-foreigner campaign
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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 pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.”
Sanseito's emergence has caught Japan's community of foreign residents by surprise, with the party's anti-foreigner rhetoric causing concern among many Japanese and non-Japanese alike.
A right-wing populist party, Sanseito, led by a former supermarket manager, has surprisingly won big in Japan's recent parliamentary elections after originating on YouTube.
Populist ideals are gaining traction in Japan, spurred by right-wing politicians running rampant elsewhere railing against “elitism,” “globalism” and immigration.
In a result few predicted, the far-right Sanseito party has come out as one of the main winners in Japan’s upper house contest, securing 14 seats out
Japan held elections for its upper house, the House of Councillors, on July 20. The vote proved a challenge for the conservative ruling Liberal Democ
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