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People
It is each person's question
that keeps this place moving.
Thirty-eight people, as of June 2026, from many different schools across Tokyo and the three neighbouring prefectures. Not a list of titles: division by division, each person with the question they are chasing.
Members Data
The 38, broken down.
Members come from across Tokyo and the three neighbouring prefectures, from public and private schools and international schools alike, all working at the same mission.
As of June 2026. "Tokyo" excludes Adachi. The three neighbouring prefectures are Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba.
Executive Office
Executive OfficeThe centre: decisions for the whole organization, keeping work on track, and building what everything else rests on.
Founder and Director | First cohort
How do you build an organization where every single person belongs and every single person finds it worth doing?
Speaking →Deputy Director | Second cohort
How far can looking at things as an educator untangle a social problem?
Head of Internal Affairs | Second cohort
How do you design an organization that keeps running without its director?
Branding and Strategy Division
Branding & Strategy Div.The Branding Strategy Section and the Creative Team — graphic designers, editors, photographers — give TEIGEN JP's credibility a form you can see.
Manager | Third cohort
How does a student organization build the kind of credibility that holds up with government and with companies?
Creative Team
Member | Third cohort
How much of the heat of the thing can video actually carry?
Member | Fourth cohort
What can one photograph say about an organization?
Civic Education Division
Civic Education Div.The core division: the Mock Ward Mayoral Election, the Mock Gubernatorial Election and the outreach classes, organized into operations sections by area — Adachi, Setagaya and Tokyo.
Manager
Manager | Third cohort
What does it take for a teenager to leave the audience and speak as someone with a stake in it?
Read the interview →Adachi Mock Ward Mayoral Election, Operations Section
Project Manager | Third cohort
How do you build a team where everyone can lead?
Read the interview →Member | Third cohort
How does a voice buried by someone's age or position get heard?
Member | Fourth cohort
Member | Fourth cohort
How much closer to politics can a mock election actually get you?
Member | Fourth cohort
What is missing from a society where children and young people would find it easy to say what they think?
Setagaya Mock Ward Mayoral Election, Operations Section
Project Manager | Fourth cohort
In Setagaya, where I went to school, what would move how people my age think about politics?
Member | Second cohort
What does it look like to run something with the participants' growth first?
Member | Fourth cohort
How is politics affecting our ordinary days?
Member | Fourth cohort
Where is the door through which a teenager in Setagaya starts caring about politics?
Member | Third cohort
What kind of door reaches people who are not interested in politics at all?
Tokyo Mock Gubernatorial Election, Operations Section
Founder and Director | First cohort
How do you build an organization where every single person belongs and every single person finds it worth doing?
Speaking →Manager | Third cohort, joined 2025
What does it take for a teenager to leave the audience and speak as someone with a stake in it?
Project Manager | Fourth cohort
At the scale of Tokyo, how far does something attempted by teenagers actually get?
Member | Fourth cohort
What does it take to get a policy down into the real world?
Member | Fourth cohortalso Clean Education
What does trying something you have never done open up in you?
Member | Fourth cohort
How do you build a place where teenagers find it easy to say what they think?
Clean Education Division
Clean Education Div.Runs Osouji-tai: Protect Your Neighborhood, the elementary school outreach class developed with Duskin Co., Ltd. Turning cleaning into an education in public life.
Manager | Second cohort
How far can you train the practical ability to make something from nothing?
Read the interview →Member | Fourth cohortalso Clean Education
What does trying something you have never done open up in you?
Member | Fourth cohort
How do you acquire the ability to move society?
Member | Fourth cohort
What is the right education program for the society we actually have?
Member | Fourth cohort
What kind of setting lets a child feel themselves growing through something close at hand?
Legacy Fellows
Legacy FellowsThe alumni association, made up of the founding members. By staying alongside the current members, advising them and helping them get the word out, it passes TEIGEN JP's social capital to the next generation.
Shofukai | First cohort, founding member
Where does finishing something actually begin?
Shofukai | First cohort, founding member
What form can support from the alumni take?
Shofukai | First cohort, founding member
After you leave, how can staying alongside people help what they are trying?
Shofukai | First cohort, founding member
How do people from different divisions and different cohorts come to know each other without being made to?
Read the interview →Based on member registration data as of June 2026, and published only within the scope each person has consented to — including their guardians, where a member is under 18. Roles and divisions follow the 2026 organization chart and are updated as they change.
On leave
Section of Inactive MembersMembers currently inactive because of schoolwork or other circumstances. Recorded here as people who will bring their questions back.
Second cohort
Second cohort
Third cohort
Third cohort
Third cohort
Third cohort
Second cohort
Fourth cohort
Organization
Organization Chart
The general meeting is the highest decision-making body; under the board sit the executive office and three divisions. The five-year vision committee is a special body, and Shofukai is the alumni association. (2026)
committeeSpecial body
Strategy Section
Mock Ward Mayoral Election
Operations SectionProject Manager
Mock Ward Mayoral Election
Operations SectionProject Manager
Mock Gubernatorial Election
Operations SectionProject Manager
Governance — the board, monthly reports, one-to-ones — is described in detail on About Us .
Interview
Member interviews
"From the audience to the people making it."
Saki Akiyama | Manager, Civic Education Division, third cohort
How someone who took part in the Mock Ward Mayoral Election was running it a year later. What leaving the audience actually looks like.
Interview 02｜0→1"Nothing changes while you wait for someone else to act."
Masatsugu Goto | Manager, Clean Education Division, second cohort
Why is Japan relatively clean? A question from studying abroad, built from nothing into a program that had no precedent.
Interview 03 | On the ground"Second year of high school. Job title: project manager."
Shuta Kanehara | Project Manager, Adachi Mock Ward Mayoral Election, third cohort
A high school student running the flagship program on the ground. What it is really like in an organization that moves on roles, not ages.
Interview 04 | Handing on"Founding members don't graduate."
Kanae Yokohama | Shofukai, first cohort, founding member
The three years from four people to thirty-eight, and why the founding members are still involved through Shofukai.
Some interviews are still drafts awaiting publication. Member pieces are published after the member has checked them; pieces involving government or schools after the institution has reviewed and approved them.