Diet panel OKs regulating election posters after chaos in Tokyo race

A Japanese lower house panel on Tuesday approved a bill regulating the standards for electoral campaign posters, following the chaos caused in last year's Tokyo gubernatorial race over the display of posters.The ruling and opposition parties are hoping to have the bill to revise the public offices election law enacted in the current Diet session and take effect before the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election in late June.During the campaign for the Tokyo election in July, duplicates of the same poster, with some unrelated to the election, were plastered on election boards, which were instal…READ FULL ARTICLE