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Japan: Personal Donations to Politicians

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 @ 17:10 UTC

by Tomomi Sasaki

Countries:: Japan
Topics:: Business, Software & Tools, Politics
Languages:: Japanese

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Japón: Donaciones personales para políticos...

With “Love Japan“, Rakuten Inc. has enabled personal donations to politicians via credit card, a first in Japan. Hit Okano [ja] ponders about the relationship between the amount of donated money and its influence on politicians, while blogger Satotaku [ja] refers to U.S. President Obama's success with online contributions and expects other services to follow.

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Ravi Priyankara

I would like to contact with a Japanese person.

# 2009-07-22 at 11:29 am

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