Usually I only post videos that are interesting/understandable to non-Japanese speakers, but this one is not- sorry!
I just wanted to introduce that NicoNicoDouga is even used for political videos :)
There were people uploading TVprograms of the Diet to NicoNicoDouga.
As people can comment on top of the videos, conversations started.
I think this was a good tendency. It is said that Japanese youngsters are generally not interested in politics- but when they watch the NicoNicoDouga videos of the politicians debating in the diet and start commenting as well as watching (listening) to other NicoNico users commenting, I think it deepens their understanding and start to think more about the issues.
Then the politicians started to create their channels on NicoNicoDouga.
Yuriko Koike of Liberal Democratic Party started her channel:
She has 17 videos and the one with the most view has 36,068 views.
Ichiro Ozawa of Democratic Party of Japan started his channel:
He has 13 videos uploaded, and the one that has the most PV has 69,530 views.
Kazuo Shii of Japan Communist Party started his channel as well.
He has 42 videos uploaded (although he just started this channel on 10/6), and the one that has the most PV has 15,873 views.
BTW and FYI, party support rate as of 9/26 is as follows.
(data source FNN/Sankei)
Liberal Democratic Party - 31.7%
Democratic Party of Japan - 25.9%
Japan Communist Party - 2.5%
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