Election Day
Today is election day for 124 members of the 245 in the upper house in Japan. A total of 545 candidates were registered by the deadline, with a record 181 of them women.
Official campaigning began on June 22. (This seems very strange to me because candidates seem to start campaigning years in advance in the US.) About two weeks before every election, big boards go up, with photos of the candidates.
One of the main issues here in Japan, as in most everywhere else, is the rising cost of practically everything. Prime Minister Kishida, who is the head of the Liberal Democratic Party, blames Russia's invasion of Ukraine for high energy and other prices. Kenta Izumi, leader of the main opposition party, criticizes the current government's economic policy. The Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii, is against the Prime Minister's plan to bolster Japan's defense forces and wants to use everyone's power to stop politics that crush our lives. Takashi Tachibana, the head of the party to protect the public from Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK), wants to do away with subscription fees for pensioners.
Here are the candidates where I live.
These two are the strangest picture blocks, in my opinion.
5 comments:
That's interesting -- some of the same arguments you hear here. (If Biden could fix everything that is related to external circumstances, he would walk on water). It must be a strange place over there after the assassination of Shinzu Abe. I wonder if that will affect election results.
Mr Abe's assassination must have cast a pall over the proceedings. Such a dreadful and shocking thing to happen.
I went to vote yesterday.
(In Japan, there is a certain voting period before the voting data.)
Two posters that you found strange. Me too.
May be saying something important to someone.
But I wonder if it should be discussed in Congress.
Oh my goodness two weeks sounds perfect! Over in the USA I am already sick of hearing about the 2024 election!
A "party to protect the public from Japan Broadcasting Corp."? Interesting!
I think campaigning might be similar in Japan to what it is in Germany. There is only a set period (a couple weeks I think) that parties are allowed to have posters up and such.
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