FactCheck Initiative Japan, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization that analyzes information provided by politicians, has found issues with a number of claims that were made in relation to the July 21 Upper House election.
Of the 11 claims of false or misleading statements and information it investigated in connection with the vote, five were found to be "inaccurate," four were "erroneous" or suspected as such, one was "misleading" and one was suspected of being a fake video.
The Tokyo-based NPO, established in 2017, collaborates with media organizations to track down claims made in campaign statements or political broadcasts, or on social media, that are suspected of being false. At a presentation in Kyoto on Sunday, Hitofumi Yanai, FIJ's executive director and lawyer, presented the group's conclusions and explained how it had classified the different statements.