The Public Offices Election Law prohibited door-to-door canvassing for political candidates. Lower courts had allowed this law to continue, though acknowledging that it infringed on the constitutionally-protected right to freedom of speech. The courts had stated that the Constitution allowed for a certain amount of infringement, and that the right to freedom of speech was not inviolable. The Supreme Court of Japan agreed and allowed the law. In so doing, the Court cited the ICCPR and said that the law did not violate Articles 19 and 25 of the ICCPR.

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