Tottori – The Tottori Prefectural Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed an ordinance banning the use of official boards for election candidates' posters for purposes unrelated to election ...

A person looks at an election poster board for Tokyo gubernatorial election Monday, July 1, 2024, in Tokyo. Tokyo elects a new governor on Sunday, July 7, but residents say personal publicity ...

A number of identical posters unrelated to candidates are seen on a Tokyo gubernatorial election bulletin board in the capital's Shinjuku Ward on June 20, 2024. (Mainichi/Toshiki Miyama) TOKYO ...

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Tokyo (Jiji Press) -- While Japan's Diet has enacted a bill calling for decency in election campaign posters, the country's efforts to prevent votes falling into chaos are starting to ...

A person looks at an election poster board for Tokyo gubernatorial election Monday, July 1, 2024, in Tokyo. Tokyo elects a new governor on Sunday but residents say personal publicity stunts have ...

(Originally published in Japanese on December 6, 2024. Banner photo: Saitō Motohiko fixes his poster in place on October 31, 2024, at the start of his campaign to be reinstated as governor of ...

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.

The Tokyo election was emblematic of Japanese politics, where at the national level the Liberal Democrats have governed for all but four years since 1955.The party has held an iron grip on Japan ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shigeru Ishiba, the head of Japan's governing party, plans to call a parliamentary election to be held on Oct. 27 after he is elected as prime minister on Tuesday.

Japan’s governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the status quo, throwing Japanese politics into its most uncertain ...