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Turning politics
into their own story.

Mock Ward Mayoral Election for School takes students from drafting policy through candidacy, speeches and voting; alongside it we run citizenship education and cleanup outreach classes. Delivery is built on what we learned working with the election administration commission, and runs from two periods upward.

Programs

What we can run at your school

So far: six deliveries, 240 participants in total — three Mock Ward Mayoral Elections in Adachi and three deliveries of Osouji-tai: Protect Your Neighborhood in elementary schools, among others.

Junior and senior high schools

Visiting classes & mock elections

The first time your own voice changes something.

A two-to-four-period lesson where students go from drafting policy to running, giving speeches and voting. Built on our work with the election board, it can also use school rules as the election topic.

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Elementary school

Osouji-tai Community Cleanup Program

Turning cleaning into an education in public life.

A single-period cleaning lesson built on a curriculum developed with the cooperation of Duskin Co., Ltd. Through cleaning, children build a sense of ownership of shared spaces and public spirit.

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Single periods, ceremonies & training

A talk or speaking engagement

For a single period, or a ceremony.

When only one period is available, or for ceremonies and training sessions, we give a talk instead. Elections, youth participation, teens taking on challenges, running a student organization — shaped around your goals.

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Guide: outreach class, 2–4 periods, ¥30,000–50,000 per session plus expenses; talk, from one period (50 min), from ¥20,000 plus expenses.

Every fee goes to running the organization and developing the materials. It is what it costs to keep giving teenagers a real experience of democracy, not a way of making money.How we think about cost →

What We Do

Taught by people close to your students' age.

School

For schools

What we can do: citizenship education and cleanup outreach classes, tie-ins with inquiry-based learning, a mock election about your school rules, and shared use of teaching materials. When someone barely older than they are stands at the front, politics stops being about other people.

For example: Adachi Elementary School (three fifth-grade classes, cleanup education), Tokyo Metropolitan Kohoku High School (helped with a mock vote for about 320 second-year students), talks at Adachi Daiyon Junior High School and Aichi Prefectural Tokai Shofu High School, and sessions for part-time high school courses.

What the class covers, and what it costs →Inquire about an outreach class →

Policy Fit

Pointing the same way as
the high school of 2040.

In February 2026, MEXT published its basic policy for high school reform, the "Grand Design" (the N-E.X.T. High School Initiative), and sent it to boards of education nationwide. It sets out how high school learning should change toward 2040, and the classes we have run in schools overlap with its wording in the following ways.

  1. Perspective 1Developing abilities and individuality that AI cannot replace, so students can live independently as sovereign citizens in an uncertain age
    Mock elections and the Mock Ward Mayoral Election

    Students research local issues, draft policies, give speeches as candidates, face questions and decide by vote. It is not about memorizing the system: it is the experience of being a sovereign citizen who puts their own ideas before others.

  2. Perspective 2Inquiry-based, cross-disciplinary, hands-on learning
    Linking with inquiry-based learning

    From analyzing an issue, to drafting a policy with concrete methods and a budget, to producing election bulletins and speeches, it all runs as one continuous process. A question from inquiry time is finished into something that can persuade others.

  3. BackgroundHigh school education that responds to social change must be achieved by everyone working together
    Working with the community and local government

    We bring into schools the whole system we have run together with the election administration commission, the board of education and the ward assembly. At Tokyo Metropolitan Kohoku High School, we supported a citizenship education program run by the Adachi Election Administration Commission for about 320 second-year students.

Source: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), "Basic Policy on High School Education Reform (Grand Design): the N-E.X.T. High School Initiative toward 2040" (published February 13, 2026). The mapping between the policy and our work is TEIGEN JP's own reading.

Record

Past sessions

Process

How it happens

  1. STEP 1

    Contact Us

    Tell us by form or email what you want, roughly what shape, and when. We normally reply within three working days.

  2. STEP 2

    Online meeting

    We agree what it is for, who it is for, and what should be different afterward. There is no charge at this stage.

  3. STEP 3

    Design and division of work

    A written proposal, a running order, costs where relevant, and who does what.

  4. STEP 4

    Preparation and publicity

    Materials and documents, publicity, and coordination with everyone involved.

  5. STEP 5

    Delivery and review

    Afterwards we share the questionnaire results and a written review, so the next one is better.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does it cost anything?
The outreach classes — Mock Ward Mayoral Election for School and Mock Principal Election — both run two to four periods, at a guide price of ¥30,000–50,000 per delivery plus travel and venue costs at cost, depending on scale and content. For a single period we come as a speaker rather than a teacher (from ¥20,000 plus costs; we work with your program and your organization's regulations). We are flexible with nonprofits. Every fee goes to running the organization and developing the materials, so that a teenager's first experience of democracy is not a one-off. Co-hosted events and curriculum development are quoted by scale.
Can you come during a weekday?
Our members are students, so we arrange it within what their schoolwork allows. We have delivered classes during weekdays before, and dates are negotiable.
Is political neutrality maintained?
TEIGEN JP does not support any party, candidate or ideology. We work with systems, processes and the experience of deliberation, and our record of working with schools and government backs the neutrality of that design. The full policy (adopted by the board on 28 August 2026) is in our Policy on Political Neutrality.
How far ahead should we get in touch?
One to two months before the date for an outreach class, three months or more for a co-hosted event, gives us room to design it properly. If it is urgent, tell us anyway.
Can you come a long way?
We deliver classes and talks online. For in-person visits, talk to us about dates and costs.
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Turning "we'd like to do something
with teenagers" into a plan.

Talk to us about bringing it to your school About Mock Ward Mayoral Election for School