Daily News: Odd News - Japan PM Abe hops and flips in voter-wooing game app

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Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 10:33 PM PDT
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Japan PM Abe hops and flips in voter-wooing game app  Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 10:33 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - It's a bird, it's a plane ... It's a cartoon version of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, hopping and somersaulting his way through the sky in a smartphone game app his party hopes will lure young voters ahead of a July 21 election. A growing number of Japanese politicians are venturing into the cyber world after a legal change allowed the use of social media in campaigns, setting up Facebook pages and twitter accounts to woo voters before a July upper house election. ... Full Story	Top
San Diego protester faces vandalism charges for sidewalk chalk drawings  Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 08:27 PM PDT By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A protester is standing trial on criminal vandalism charges in San Diego, and faces a sentence of up to 13 years in prison if convicted, for a scribbling a series of anti-bank slogans in chalk on a city sidewalk. Mayor Bob Filner has denounced the prosecution of Jeff Olson, 40, a man with no previous criminal record, as a waste of taxpayer money and an abuse of power that infringes on First Amendment free speech protections in the U.S. Constitution. ... Full Story	Top

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