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Calls for Japan’s Leader to Resign as His Party Faces Election Defeat

Exit polls suggest a major loss for the Liberal Democratic Party in parliamentary elections, but Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is vowing to stay on.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan, center left, after the parliamentary elections at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday.

Sohei Kamiya Brings Trump-Style Populism to Japan’s Election

With his calls to limit foreign workers, fight globalism and put “Japanese First,” Sohei Kamiya has brought a fiery right-wing populism to Japan’s election on Sunday.

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Sohei Kamiya, the leader of an upstart right-wing political party called Sanseito, delivering a campaign speech this month at Takasaki Station in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.

Japan Election 2025: What to Know

Shigeru Ishiba of the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party could face calls to resign if his party fares poorly in Sunday’s Upper House elections.

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Supporters putting up election campaign posters this month on a bulletin board in Tokyo.
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