The out-of-date Japan election laws made Democratic Party of Japan(DPJ) remove the party leader's video from its official web site.
This incident is widely reported not only in Japan but in US(Candidates Hampered by Japan Election Laws: Washington Post).
TOKYO -- When the head of Japan's top opposition party gave a heated speech in Tokyo this week, aides put a video clip of it on the party Web site.
But only hours later, election officials called the Democratic Party of Japan to say the footage was in danger of violating the country's election laws. By Wednesday morning, the video was gone.
The law effectively bars all other media, preventing candidates from using the Internet and e-mail to disseminate images, and parties and candidates from updating their Web sites until after polls close.
This article also mentions our famous Horiemon. It may make him a world-wide celebrity and make him, undoubtedly, feel happier.
The country's best-known Internet entrepreneur, Takafumi Horie, is running as an independent, but with the backing of the ruling party.
Horie has stopped updating his popular Internet blog _ which was registering over 50,000 hits a day _ since Aug. 18, the day before he announced his candidacy.
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