Political faces

It's good to see so many women candidates.

One of those ridiculous speaker trucks went by yesterday, which I had the unfortunate experience of enduring. "My name is OO, OO. Nice to meet you, my name is OO. I support a bright future for Japan. OO, the name is OO". And they wonder why voter turnout is at record lows... WHY AREN'T THESE RIDICULOUS TRUCKS BANNED? Been enduring this ear-piercing BS for weeks upon weeks now...

My e-vote to : Yanazawa Aki & Enoki Ayumi !

Been enduring this ear-piercing BS for weeks upon weeks now...

Get used to it or not, it's that simple. Earplugs work wonders, or headphones playing your favorite music!

Can't pick one. On balance, I'd go for number 48.

@Yubaru

Get used to it or not, it's that simple. Earplugs work wonders, or headphones playing your favorite music!

Without spiralling into a rant, I've been in Japan several years and it still bothers me. There's a time & a place for this sort of thing, and candidates usually have to apply for permits to partake in said activities. Here it's just open season, even on a bloody Sunday morning. Hours and hours of the same old ear bashing. It needs to either be phased out or heavily, heavily regulated.

sighclops: There's nothing you can do but 'gaman', I'm sad to say. No one is CERTAINLY going to do anything but react with the 'attack on our culture' if a foreigner is complaining about the way Japanese do things. Japan is the noise pollution capital of the world -- true fact -- and while even many Japanese I know are annoyed by these trucks and the stupid system of going around, trucks blaring (be it for election, yakuza/bosozoku, u-yoku, or recycling trucks), nothing will ever be done about it.

Anyway, they forgot the 'r' before the 'c' in the second word.

3rd row down, 4th along or extreme right get my vote. they have such sensible policy propositions.

Smith don't you mean the 'e'?

How are we supposed to decide who the best leader is without a clenched fist pose? Also, I think the last guy in the second row is trying to channel Obama.

Fake , Fake , Fake , not even 50 % of these People are going to do any Good for Society . My favorite : Nr. 3 , first Row on Top from the Right . But of Course all these Polished and Photoshoped Smiles don't reveal what Substance lies beyond their Superficiality.

Complte waste of paper and wood. Just another way Japan is a real dichotomy -- a cutting edge country technologically in many ways, yet stuck in the past in so many others.

Kaerimashita: "Smith don't you mean the 'e'?"

Either or. haha.

I found this take on the "election" rather amusing:

http://modernmarketingjapan.blogspot.jp/2015/04/vote-hot-babes-and-hot-picks-in.html?m=1

Anyone seen the poster of the naked nationalist? Disgusting in all senses of the word.