How a far-right ‘Japanese First’ party gained new ground

Shaimaa Khalil

Tokyo correspondent

Reuters Japan's Sanseito party leader Sohei Kamiya, standing in front of his party's banner holding an orange mic, speaks to supporters on 20 July, the last day of campaigningReuters

Sohei Kamiya, who launched Sanseito in 2020, has threatened that Japan would become a “colony” if it did nothing to “resist foreign pressure”

For three years, a once fringe opposition party held just one…

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