Only a day into the Tokyo governor’s election campaign, local officials have faced a plethora of problems concerning candidate billboards, ranging from a lack of space to unabashed nudity.

Tokyo gubernatorial elections ... had no intention of using the billboard spaces to promote their candidacies. NHK kara Kokumin wo Mamoru To, a political organization that ran on an anti-Japan ...

This year's escalation is partly linked to an emerging conservative political party that has fielded 24 candidates for governor. Since each of the election billboards across Tokyo has 48 squares ...

A young Sci-Fi writer politician in Tokyo wants to govern the nation with AI, and has announced he will create a tool to aggregate public opinion, manage political funds, and even shape policy.