Japan: Personal Donations to Politicians

Posted 9 July 2009 17:10 GMT

Countries	Japan
Topics	Technology, Politics, Economics & Business
Languages	Japanese

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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.

# 22 July 2009, 11:29 am

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