{"id":11699,"date":"2010-12-14T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2010-12-14T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T14:34:00","slug":"kanazawa-mayor-candidate-challenges-twitter-banned-japan-election-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/kanazawa-mayor-candidate-challenges-twitter-banned-japan-election-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanazawa Mayor Candidate Challenges Twitter-Banning Japan&#8217;s Election System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 28th at Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan there was a mayor election. The two leading candidates, incumbent <a href=\"http:\/\/yamade-tamotsu.com\/\">Tamotsu Yamade<\/a> [J], 79, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacelan.ne.jp\/~yamano\/profile.html\">Yukiyoshi Yamano<\/a> [J], 48, competed closely, gained 56,840 and 58,204 votes respectively. Only 1,364 difference.<br \/>\nThe things causing a fuss is, the young winner Yamano&#8217;s team reportedly had been using Twitter during the campaign period, which violates the Japan&#8217;s public office electian law which bans all \u201cdocuments and drawings\u201d distribution are prohibited.<br \/>\nAccording to Mainichi, not Yamano himself did not update his Twitter but his secretary and the chief of internet strategy, who runs IT company, made many tweets with attaching candidate&#8217;s photo like addressing.<br \/>\nThe election committee was said to caution Yamano&#8217;s office more than 3 times, and also informed Ishikawa prefecture police, but the police did not make caution. A topsider of the police commented that it was difficult to prosecute as lifting of the Internet ban is in recent trend.<br \/>\nThe chief of internet strategy said that he understood that it was illegal, but thinks okay unless the result of the election gets revoked.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/biz\/news\/20101212ddm041010046000c.html\">Mainichi<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/japans-internet-banned-election-probed-by-voice-over-twitter\/\">Japan\u2019s Internet-Banned Election Probed By Voice Over Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1917137,00.html\">Japan Kicks Off Twitter-Free Election Campaign &#8211; TIME<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 28th at Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan there was a mayor election. The two leading candidates, incumbent Tamotsu Yamade [J], 79, and Yukiyoshi Yamano [J], 48, competed closely, gained 56,840 and 58,204 votes respectively. Only 1,364 difference. The things causing a fuss is, the young winner Yamano&#8217;s team reportedly had been using Twitter&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/kanazawa-mayor-candidate-challenges-twitter-banned-japan-election-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kanazawa Mayor Candidate Challenges Twitter-Banning Japan&#8217;s Election System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1052,1712,1916,2916,3856],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-election","tag-internet","tag-kanazawa","tag-politics","tag-twitter","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}