Do free elections take place in Japan?
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Yes, although it does have a Constitutional monarchy. The Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi was recently re-elected.
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In non-national elections yes for example some states will only let you vote for a democratic party canidate to run if you belong to the democratic party
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You are talking about Live door of Japan. That is great. Do you need info in Japanese or English about that?\n\nBut I give a link of the live door blog.\n\nIf need further help  can contact me nihon94@yahoo.com
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Yes, abortion is legal in Japan and here is some background information on abortion in Japan.\n\nIn order to get into the website I listed below, you must have Microsoft Word on your computer or downloaded to your computer.\n\nI hoped this helped answer your question.\n\n\nBACKGROUND\n\nAbortion in Japan is governed by two pieces of legislation. The first is the Criminal Code, which was first enacted in 1880 and in its present form dates from 1908. It prohibits the performance of all abortions; a woman who performs her own abortion is subject to up to one year’s imprisonment, and a person who performs an abortion on another is subject to up to two years’ imprisonment. Medical personnel are subject to harsher penalties. This prohibition against abortion reflects primarily the desire of the Japanese Government in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century to increase the nation’s rate of population growth in order to support Japanese expansion.\n\nThe second piece of legislation governing abortion is the Eugenic Protection Law. This Law has its source in eugenics legislation that was enacted in 1940 and is patterned on similar National Socialist German legislation of the 1930s. In its original form, the Law had a two-fold purpose: 1) to increase the number of Japanese; and 2) to prevent the birth of genetically inferior offspring and promote a genetically healthy population. It permitted sterilization only for the prevention of hereditary diseases, and abortion only to save the life of the pregnant woman. \n\nThe current Eugenic Protection Law was approved in 1948 and, as amended in 1949 and 1952, was in effect with largely the same wording until 1996. The Law was a product of socio-economic conditions in Japan in the years immediately following the Second World War, when the country faced a serious imbalance between its rapidly growing population and war-shattered economy.  The need to limit family size became increasingly apparent and there was a high incidence of illegally induced abortion.  The Government responded by promoting family planning through the methods then available, which were mostly traditional, and by legalizing abortion.\n\n\nGrounds on which abortion is permitted: \n\nTo save the life of the womanYes\nTo preserve physical healthYes\nTo preserve mental healthNo*\nRape or incestYes\nFoetal impairmentNo*\nEconomic or social reasonsYes\nAvailable on requestNo\n\nAdditional requirements:\n\nInduced abortions are allowed only within the first 24 weeks of gestation.  All legal abortions must be performed within medical facilities at the discretion of a physician designated by a local medical association.  The consent of the woman or her spouse is required, while the consent of a mentally retarded woman can be given by her guardian.  When the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest, the abortion can be performed without the legal consent of the woman.\n______________\n\n* While Japan’s abortion law allows abortions to be performed on the specific ground of physical health, it contains no specific mental health grounds, nor does it specifically authorize abortions to be performed in the case of foetal impairment.  However, since the law allows abortions to be performed for socio-economic reasons, mental health and foetal impairment grounds are presumably covered by this ground.
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China and Japan do this on a regular basis.  Sadly there isn't any software that I know of that can get around this!  It's blocked at a local level, most often by those in power.
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it is usually volunteers from both main parties.  Electioneering and campaigning is illegal within 100 feet of polling places.
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here's the official site for this year's event in Japan\n\nhttp://www.yonex-tuc.com/english/index.html
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These are in Tokyo.\n\nhttp://www.geidai.ac.jp/english/index.html\nhttp://musabi.ac.jp/e-home/index.html\nhttp://www.tamabi.ac.jp/\nhttp://www.dhw.ac.jp/index.html\n\nClasses are held in Japanese only.
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Don't think so.\nthere was a time that labour cost was cheap in Japan.Every developing country has a time with cheap labour cost that allows it develop.India is a good example too.A few years,African countries may experience this period as well.\n\nMore importance,the illegal immigrant from Mexico had more impact  on the job loss than cheap labour in America.
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Not sure if its free, Try asking through a thing called JET cause japans a great place to go to and the kids over there just love learning english, i'm 15 and i just got back from there so i figured that out
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i found a site that should help ya\nhttp://www.faqs.org/faqs/japan/faq/part2/section-2.html\ni only found for japan...soz\nxxxxxxxxx\ntokio-hotel-lover
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They probably wouldn't.....you're right about politicians, Ichi. It's nice to know that they're crazy everywhere!
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Japan is a very homogeneous society they remain traditional and still let out side influences into there country. there old ways still aaare there in there every day lives.
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My friend's wife is from Colombia.  They met while they were studying at an American university, and when he returned to Japan, she followed him.  They eventually got married, but she had a real difficult time for the first year or so because she spoke no Japanese.  Now, after having been in Japan for ten years, she says she loves it here and never want to move to another country, including her home country.  I think Lations and Japanese share some of the same values, like importance of family, so it might be easy to assimiliate in that regards.
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Local Elections in the UK are always held on the first Thursday in May. HOWEVER, this has been changed twice by government legislation.\n\nIn 2001, the government moved the locals from May to June (to coincide with the general election) and the same happened in 2004 to coincide with the European Elections.\n\nWhoops, my apolgies. The British Local Elections are (as a rule) held on the first Thursday in May. These dates are fixed in advance by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and are published on the web at www.odpm.gov.uk
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No-- Arizona has a stupid proposition on the ballot which would give unclaimed lottery money to random people who vote in each election.\n\nYou should vote becuase it is your civic duty, not for lottery money.  Giving rewards to vote would only encourage people to randomly vote for things and candidate.  It would not encourage people to take the effort to learn about the candidates or the propositions.\n\nYou have a right to vote-- but frankly, I want people with a clue to cast votes, not people who blindly pick stuff off a ballot.
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It can, and should, be done.  Before you begin it is important to collect your energy.  Breathing exercises will help.  this will become painfully evident to you after you open the window and shout the party's name in full vigor.  Remember!!!..... that during peak hours you MUST open a window closest in proximity to the japonnese mainland.