TEIGEN JP held its civic education program, Mock Ward Mayoral Election 2025 — The Other Side of the Ballot Box.
Forty-six middle and high school students from across the country took part, along with seven members of the Adachi Ward Assembly.
Part 1: group work and drafting policy
Part 2: the mock election and the vote
The second edition was open to the public all day, and residents, Diet members, press and many others came to watch alongside the participating students. It closed to a considerable response.
Acknowledgements
The following supported and helped make this possible. Our sincere thanks to all of them.
The Adachi Election Administration Commission (co-host); the Adachi Board of Education and Ward Assembly; Ritsumei Inc.; Earth Guardians Japan; the Chuo University society Vote at Chuo!!; the Tokyo Denki University newspaper committee; civic education officer Katsuyuki Yamada; Speaker Taro Tada; and assembly members Tetsuya Kudo, Yu Sugimoto, Masakazu Okada, Ayumi Mizuno, Yuma Nishinohara, Mikoto Kawamura, Kentaro Tomita, Noriko Tsuchiya and Mayumi Takahashi. In no particular order.
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A student organization working on civic education and teenage participation in public life, driven by the gap in who gets opportunities. Our mission: every teenager should get to meet the person they have not yet become. Around forty high school and university students from Tokyo and the three neighbouring prefectures run it. Our programs include the Mock Ward Mayoral Election — held in the ward office and the assembly chamber, taking participants from drafting policy through candidacy to the count — and Osouji-tai, which builds a sense of ownership over shared space through cleaning. More than 1,000 people have now learned how democracy feels from the inside.
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