Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video, Tokyo correspondent Shotaro Tani sits down with Romeo Marcantuoni, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, to discuss the history and rise of the right-wing Sanseito party, and what their recent electoral gains mean for Japanese politics.

Marcantuoni's research is on contemporary Japanese opposition politics, and he has co-authored a forthcoming paper on Sanseito and its conspiracy ideology.

Sanseito brings far-right populism to Japan
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