Ahead of the Tokyo gubernatorial election, residents in the capital are seeing duplicates of the same poster — some of which are unrelated to the poll — dominating half of the wooden boards ...

2024. (Mainichi/Toshiki Miyama) TOKYO -- Lawmakers in Japan are preparing to revise the Public Offices Election Act to ban defamation and advertising on election campaign posters following the ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press) — While Japan’s Diet ... the public offices election law, drafted following the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial poll, in which many inappropriate posters were seen.

Many of the record 56 candidates running sold the space set aside for their campaign posters on the billboards ... that emerged in their elections of 2024. Yusuke Oda of the Tokyo commission ...

As a Japanese citizen I feel ... Since each of the election billboards across Tokyo has 48 squares for candidates to paste their posters, the party is renting out half the slots to anyone who ...

“I wonder if this is democracy in action, or whether it’s like an ‘up yours’ to democracy,” said Emma Dalton, a senior lecturer in Japanese ... to post campaign posters featuring photos ...

Japan's parliament on Wednesday passed a bill calling for decency in election campaign posters. The bill to revise the public offices election law was approved by a majority vote at a plenary ...

Polls opened Sunday in Japan’s general election, in a test for new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as he seeks voter support for his scandal-hit party just weeks after taking the role. Ishiba ...

speaks at a campaign for the upcoming general election in Tokyo, Japan, on October 26, 2024 [Manami Yamada/Reuters] Voters in Japan head to the polls on Sunday to elect members of their House of ...

By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan’s governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the ...