ROKUNOHE, Aomori -- The municipal government here has decided to scrap its electronic voting system, the only one of its kind in Japan, it has been learned. With the cost burden on the Rokunohe ...
TOKYO -- To counter low overseas Japanese voter turnout, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has decided to conduct a test run of an internet voting system to examine identification ...
A political season seems to have set in once again in Japan with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expected to dissolve the House of Representatives on Oct. 10 and call a snap general election for Nov.