Turn your question about society into a TEIGEN.
TEIGEN JP is recruiting the fourth cohort of Questioners
to run the 2026 year with us.
TEIGEN JP works toward
a world where young people can put a TEIGEN to society.
We run the Mock Ward Mayoral Election, staged in the ward office and the assembly chamber,
outreach classes in elementary, middle and high schools, cleanup education, and work alongside government and assembly members.
The banner for 2026 is "go deeper".
To take everything we have built
and make it stronger, wider and better able to reach people,
we are looking for about ten more people.
Plan and run a civic education event that takes over the ward office and the assembly chamber, entirely with students
Move a project forward alongside serving assembly members, officials, the board of education and the election commission
Through outreach classes in middle and high schools, give people your own age and younger the experience of treating politics and society as theirs
Through social media, graphics and documents, grow what TEIGEN JP thinks and does into a brand that actually reaches people
Go deeper into your own line of inquiry, through sessions with members who have been through comprehensive-selection admissions, outside competitions and speaking opportunities
What we're recruiting for
TEIGEN JP, fourth cohort of Questioners
For anyone who doesn't let the wrongness go past them,
and wants to turn their own question into a project, a TEIGEN, an action.
Applications
Sunday 10 May to Wednesday 10 June 2026
For
Third year of middle school through first year of university
or anyone of that age
Anywhere
How we work
Mostly online
plus the Adachi Ward Office, Yurakucho, Ginza and elsewhere
Divisions recruiting
Branding Strategy Division
Mock Ward Mayoral Election operations
Mock Gubernatorial Election operations
Clean Education Division
Running events, education, politics, working with government, urban development, graphics, social media, documents, video —
there is somewhere here for whatever you are good at and whatever interests you.
Selection
Applications open
Sunday 10 May to Wednesday 10 June 2026
Online interview
We arrange dates individually once you have applied.
Result
By email, following the interview.
Take the first step toward getting your question heard.
If any of this caught you,
use the link in our profile
to see the recruitment page for the fourth cohort.
We're looking forward to meeting you
as the fourth cohort of Questioners.
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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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