TOKYO -- Lawmakers in Japan are preparing to revise the Public Offices Election Act to ban defamation and advertising on election campaign posters following the "hijacking" of poster boards.

But many anti-Kurd messages that go viral come from outside Japan. And some posters, like Tayfun, totally misrepresent their true identities. In a post uploaded on X seven months ago, Tayfun wrote ...

the smiling mugshot of Satoshi Kirishima has featured on wanted posters outside police stations across Japan. After 49 years on the run, authorities think they may have got their man. A patient at ...

A Japanese election campaign wouldn't be complete without official poster boards, which give candidates the chance to show the public their faces and promote their platforms. But some of the ...