23.02.2021 - 13:24

Documentary “Pictures at an Election” now on YouTube

Axel Klein’s documentary about Japanese candidates’ campaign in Tokyo during 2007 Upper House election now on YouTube

In July 2007, Axel Klein, then senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, DIJ) in Tokyo, filmed a documentary that covers the campaigns of those candidates who tried to win one of the five seats in Tokyo during the Upper House election in 2007. The documentary shows Japan’s electoral machinery in full steam and focuses on the question of how Japanese candidates try to appeal to voters. Pictures can now be streamed on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnWFCL0Nry0

For more information visit the website of the DIJ:
https://www.dijtokyo.org/film/pictures-at-an-election/