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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...