Soka Horii, Director of TEIGEN JP, sat as a student panellist at the special lecture by Mercy Tembon, then Vice President of the World Bank, discussing youth participation and youth councils worldwide.
Drawing on the Mock Ward Mayoral Election in Adachi and on the exchange with the Toronto Youth Cabinet, Horii argued for machinery that connects young people's voices to policy by institution. That line of thinking continues as research into a youth council for Adachi.
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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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