Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sohei Kamiya, the leader of Japan's Sanseito party, speaks to the press after the upper house elections in Tokyo on July 20, 2025.

Japan held elections for its upper house, the House of Councillors, on July 20. The vote proved a challenge for the conservative ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP), which has been reeling from ...

(CNN) — Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.” Now ...