{"id":18671,"date":"2013-07-21T20:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=18671"},"modified":"2013-07-21T20:30:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:30:42","slug":"japans-national-election-with-vocaloid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/japans-national-election-with-vocaloid\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s National Election with Vocaloid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upper house election finished tonight 20:00 Sunday, July 21. This time, the use of the Internet was allowed first time in history. So far, there are no prominent Internet using candidate reported though.<br \/>\nAnother small difference which some people noticed this time is the usage of Vocaloid, human-voice music synthesizer software which might be best known by its top virtual character Hatsune Miku.<br \/>\nOne candidate of Democratic party were tweeted by using Vocaloid to blast his name around Tokyo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u9078\u6319\u30ab\u30fc\u306e\u30a6\u30b0\u30a4\u30b9\u5b22\u306e\u58f0\u304c\u30dc\u30ab\u30ed\u3092\u4f7f\u3063\u3066\u308b\u4eba\u304c\u3044\u308b\u3002\u8868\u53c2\u9053\u306b\u3066\u3002<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u5c0f\u7530\u5409\u7537 (@odayoshio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/odayoshio\/status\/356962666033577984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is someone using vocaloid for election voice. In Omote-Sando.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was retweeted by some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/takapon_jp\/status\/356973316663291906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including Takafumi Horie<\/a>. Tweets were more or less favorable to the idea itself, like saying that Vocaloid&#8217;s voices might be popular for young generation, but most people carefully avoid mentioning the candidate&#8217;s name and his political party.<br \/>\nI tried to seek if anyone took the video and uploaded, but found nothing.<br \/>\nThis communist candidate in Hokkaido also used Vocaloid to speech on election van. Speech by Vocaloid starts at 00:09.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u68ee\u3064\u306d\u3068\u53c2\u9662\u9053\u9078\u6319\u533a\u5019\u88dc\u3000\u672d\u5e4c\u5e02\u5357\u533a\u7b2c\u4e00\u58f0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8vs1oDB8-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper house election finished tonight 20:00 Sunday, July 21. This time, the use of the Internet was allowed first time in history. So far, there are no prominent Internet using candidate reported though. Another small difference which some people noticed this time is the usage of Vocaloid, human-voice music synthesizer software which might be best&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/japans-national-election-with-vocaloid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s National Election with Vocaloid<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[1052,1512,2915,4000],"class_list":["post-18671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-trend","tag-election","tag-hatsune-miku","tag-politician","tag-vocaloid","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671","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=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}