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Our executive director, Soka Horii, spoke at Summer Conference 2025, hosted by Junior Chamber International Japan: "What civic education changes about a town and its future — toward a society where young people are heard".
In a panel with Ryosuke Takashima, Mayor of Ashiya, Horii covered:
the structural reasons young people find it hard to care about politics;
what the Mock Ward Mayoral Election and our other work has produced;
a youth council model drawing on the Canadian case.
Leading the discussion, Horii told the audience that what is needed is a framework in which government, schools and the community together give form to the voices raised in outreach classes across the country — and argued hard for methods that genuinely make young people feel politics is theirs.
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A student organization tackling the gap in opportunities for teenagers through hands-on education, with the mission of giving every teenager the chance to meet a self they have not yet met. Founded in Adachi, Tokyo in 2023; 38 high school and university students from 22 different schools across the Tokyo area take part. First Prize at the 1st National High School Policy Championship, the NHK President's Award at the 70th High School Students' Speech Contest, and a policy proposal to the then Prime Minister at his office (all 2023). The Mock Ward Mayoral Election has been held three times in Adachi, co-hosted with the Adachi Election Administration Commission in 2025 and 2026.
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