On July 21, the day after the pivotal Upper House election, a fervent crowd surged in front of Tokyo’s JR Shinbashi Station to hear the Sanseito party leader take a victory lap.

It won its first seat in the upper house in 2022, following a campaign in which it fashioned itself as an "anti-globalist" ...

Now Japan’s burgeoning right-wing populist party Sanseito has emerged an unlikely winner in ... Ishiba is facing calls to resign, which he has so far resisted. Sanseito’s rise is particularly notable ...

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Inspired by other populist right-wing groups that have sprung up in recent years, Sanseito bagged 14 seats in Japan’s upper house, according to public broadcaster NHK – a dramatic increase ...

And as a historical aside, there was a highly successful Populist Party in the 1890s, which won several states in the 1892 presidential election before essentially merging with the Democrats.

In its recent campaign, the party made populist pledges such as consumption tax cuts and an increase in child benefits. But it's been most well known for its nationalist "Japanese First" platform ...