Part 2: the stump speeches
Teams worked flat out on policy ideas, campaign sashes and presentations, exactly as in a real campaign, right up to the moment the speeches began.
The election itself, and six candidates carrying it. Policies argued out with their teams, delivered in speeches each carrying the person who gave it — the words had something in them. It was a session that made you feel what a young person's voice can do.
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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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