Surveys show party may only secure 10 to 15 of 125 seats up for grabs but is eroding support of prime minister Shigeru Ishiba’s shaky LDP minority government
A disillusioned Japanese electorate feeling the economic pinch goes to the polls on Sunday, as a rightwing party promoting a “Japanese-first” agenda gains popularity, with fears over foreigners becoming a major election issue.
Birthed on YouTube during the Covid-19 pandemic spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites, the party, Sanseito, has widened its appeal ahead of Sunday’s upper house vote – railing against immigration and dragging rhetoric that was once confined to Japan’s political fringes into the mainstream.
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