Something is happening in Japan.
By now, we all know the games that the MSM plays. Look what they say about the new Japanese electoral phenomenon, Sanseito: Reuters calls it a ‘Fringe far-right party’, and ‘Inspired by Trump’.
Tokyo Weekender calls it a ‘Conspiracy-laced movement’, while the Korean paper The Star calls them a ‘Japanese First party’.
The epithets come hard and fast: ‘Ultraconservative’, ‘Right-wing populist’, ‘Extremist’, ‘Hardline nationalist’.
But the ‘Anti-globalist’ group calls itself the ‘Party of Do It Yourself!’.
By now, we on the Right are all convinced that we need to pay close attention to this movement – and apparently, the Japanese voters feel the very same way.
Exit polls today (20) show that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority, in great part due to the surge in the rightwing vote.
Leader of Right Wing Populist Sanseitō Party Sohei Kamiya’s final speech
“I am the leader of the party who will destroy the 80 year post war system, together we will fight against Globalism!”
YES! pic.twitter.com/I2MhyhvL94
— Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper (@politicalawake) July 19, 2025
Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba is refusing to step down after ‘losing its grip on power’ in the upper house of the country’s parliament.
The Telegraph reported:
“Mr. Ishiba said: ‘We are engaged in extremely critical tariff negotiations with the United States… we must never ruin these negotiations’.
However, the 68-year-old admitted: ‘It’s a difficult situation, and we have to take it very humbly and seriously’. He added that he could not ‘speak lightly’ of ‘the results so far’.”
Ishiba minority government had already lost control of the more powerful lower house back in October.
Sanseito emerges now as one of the biggest winners, warning of a ‘silent invasion’ of immigrants, defended tax cuts and welfare spending.
“Born on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic, spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites, the party broke into mainstream politics with its ‘Japanese First’ campaign.
Public broadcaster NHK projected Sanseito would win as many as 22 seats, adding to the single representative it secured in the 248-seat chamber three years ago. It has only three seats in the more powerful lower house.
[…] Sohei Kamiya, the party’s 47-year-old leader: […] ‘The phrase Japanese First was meant to express rebuilding Japanese people’s livelihoods by resisting globalism. I am not saying that we should completely ban foreigners or that every foreigner should get out of Japan’.”
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