We held Mock Ward Mayoral Election 2026 — The Other Side of the Ballot Box. Thirty-three 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 stump speeches and the vote
The third edition was attended by the partners who supported us through the crowdfunding campaign and elsewhere. Alongside the participating students, Mayor Yayoi Kondo of Adachi, Diet members, assembly members from several municipalities and the press all watched, and it closed to a considerable response.
Acknowledgements
The following supported and helped make it possible. Our sincere thanks to all of them.
The Adachi Election Administration Commission (co-host); the Adachi Board of Education and Ward Assembly; the Chuo University society Vote at Chuo!!; the Tokyo Denki University newspaper committee; our university student facilitators; civic education officer Katsuyuki Yamada; Sakuya Ikeba; Kazuki Takano; Kota Yara; Daigo Sato; Takahiro Murakoshi; Reiko Mano; Shotaro Yamashita; Ikumi Suzuki; Hiroyoshi Matsuzaka; Asuka Kawanami; Takayuki Nakahama; Hideki Takahashi; Hotaka Goto; Speaker Taro Tada; and assembly members Tetsuya Kudo, Masakazu Okada, Seiichi Ota, Yuma Nishinohara, Shuhei Ogura, Ai Sato 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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