Archive for japan

Predicting the future: we didn’t turn Japanese

15 February 2011 , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Shortly after the Conservative Party won its fourth general election in a row in 1992, a symposium met to consider the question of whether Britain – formerly a country with regularly rotating government between the two main parties – was turning into a political version of Japan, where the same party had been in power [...]

Daily View 2×2: 24 January 2010

24 January 2010 , , , , , , , , ,
It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. It’s time for one of Microsoft’s best adverts (no, really) and the bicycle lane of the week but first the news. 2 Must-Read Blog Posts What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here’s are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Really interesting health discussion: Sandy Walkington doesn’t [...]

Japan adds Twitter to the list of internet services banned in elections

23 July 2009 , ,
Last year I blogged about the unusual attitude towards the internet in Japan: It’s been a democracy for over 50 years. 60% of its population has access to high speed broadband. More blogs are written in its native language than in any other language. And the country is … Japan, where: “Once an official campaign has started, candidates are [...]

Which country bans election candidates from updating homepages and blogs during an election campaign?

25 November 2008
It’s been a democracy for over 50 years. 60% of its population has access to high speed broadband. More blogs are written in its native language than in any other language. And the country is … Japan, where: Once an official campaign has started, candidates are barred from updating their home pages, launching or amending [...]