Tokyo police raid political group over election campaign obstruction

Tokyo police conducted searches on Monday related to a minor political group accused of obstructing campaigns in a recent lower house by-election, in a rare move after receiving complaints from several other camps in the race, investigative sources said.The searches covered the office of the group "Tsubasa no To" and the homes of its leader Atsuhiko Kurokawa, 45, and Ryosuke Nemoto, 29, who was fielded by the group in the April 28 House of Representatives by-election but lost, they said.The two, along with another in their camp, allegedly used loudspeakers to interrupt rivals' campaigns and…READ FULL ARTICLE