Source: Persuasion
by Quico Toro
“Hard-right anti-immigrant politics just got its beachhead in Japan, the land of sleepy, staid consensus politics. The Sanseitō Party, founded just five years ago, broke through from obscurity to claim almost 12.5% of the vote in yesterday’s Upper House election, landing itself a substantial bench of Councillors and proving that the appeal of the populist hard right isn’t confined to the West. The ruling coalition led by the Liberal Democratic Party—the party that has governed Japan for 64 of the last 70 years—ended up just shy of the seats it needed for a majority.” (07/21/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-hard-right-comes-for-japan