Unexpectedly, I found some posters when I watched around carefully to search for stuffs related this time subject "Japanese Politics". I usually don't care about this kind of posters, but there are a lot of posters here and there, especially the Hirakata Station. I researched on these posters and hound out something interesting.
These kinds of posters are issued when politic candidates run. Most of canddates use these to inform people who have the right to vote; it applys to people over 20 years old in Japan. These posters say what candidates do when they are selected as a representive and what persons they are. Some voters see these posters and decide which candidate they vote, so these posters are very important for candidates.
As I said before, posters are issued for attracting people to vote a certain candidate. However, where can we see these posters?? I do not need to say, but of course in the place where people get together or pass over because there is a high probability that people watch these posters. Therefore, I saw many posters around the Hirakata Station. To the contrary, I found some posters on the road where people seldom pass over. Although I asked some persons who were there why this poster put on this wall, they did not know why, either, so this problem are still un unsolved! In additoin, a bulletin board appears in the time of election. Now it is not the time of election, so I didn't take the picture of this, but I put the picture of bullteinboard (comes from http://www.chuokai-shiga.or.jp/228/koeisenkyoposuta-.html). As you can see, you can put posters on the bulltein board, so it is so useful that this kind bulltein board show up in the season of election.
At last, I tell something interesting about politics posters!
I got information form TV program before. The content is that you are punished if you scribble on these kinds of posters, so you might be taken into a jail if police see you do that. Be careful not to do that! However, when you can't help scribbing on politics posters, do that after confirming whether police is near around you!Good Luck! ..........it's joke! Don't try this thing!
That's all!
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Political posters are an interesting topic. You should check out your classmate's post for this week:
http://mao2yuka.blogspot.com/2008/05/image-strategy.html
Posters of all candidates are put up on temporary community bulletin boards at the time of elections. This you illustrated in your third photo.
Your first two photos are of Komeito (the political party associated with Soka Gakkai) and the Japanese Communist Party, respectively. Members of these parties will have posters outside their home or at other places all year round because they are interested in certain issues and not necessary only getting votes in elections.
It is interesting - and a bit disturbing - that the people you talked to didn't know about these kinds of things. What kind of people did you talk to? Do you think that Japanese people in general don't have much interest of knowledge of politics?
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