Tweeters in Japan fall silent in election campaign | ajc.com

By YURI KAGEYAMA The Associated Press TOKYO — Japan is in love with Twitter with one notable exception: political campaigns. In this June 29, 2010 photo, a man looks at candidates' posters for the July 11 upper house parliamentary elections in Tokyo. Japan is in love with Twitter with one notable exception: political campaigns. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) In this June 29, 2010 photo, Twitter Inc. spo

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「"As long as we ban Internet campaigning, Japanese politicians won't mature, and voters also can't mature," said Masahiko Shoji, a leader of a movement to use the Internet to promote democracy.」