Online election campaign approved

Online election campaign approved

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a House of Councillors plenary session at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 19, 2013, shortly after the passage of a bill to allow the use of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites in election campaigning, starting with 2013 summer's upper house election.

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