End your virginity while you are still a teenager. So urges a Wakayama-based group of youths distributing contentious flyers that have gone viral on social media over the past few days. The flyers, punctuated with witty catchphrases and occasionally risque jokes, are part of an attempt ...
Although 2.4 million teens will have a chance to vote in one of Japan's most pivotal elections ever, most are indifferent because politics is widely ignored in class.
Municipalities must do their best to make it easier for residents to vote in upcoming elections.
The Lower House on Thursday passed a bill to enable people aged 18 or 19 to vote in the upcoming Upper House election even if they change their address shortly before the ballot. While the country is set to lower its voting age to 18 ...
Police on Thursday arrested two Turkish men, one an ethnic Kurd, for allegedly beating two police officers and obstructing their duties during a brawl last October that broke out near the Turkish Embassy in Tokyo. Demolition laborers Bayav Ercan, a 33-year-old from Aichi Prefecture, and ...
A 47-year-old Osaka voter has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting an election official after being greeted with a phrase he found insulting, the Osaka Prefectural Police said. After casting his ballots Sunday for the Osaka gubernatorial election, company employee Takao Nakamura of Ibaraki, Osaka ...
Myanmar has defended a decision barring 800,000 ethnic minority people from voting in November elections by saying that green card holders can't vote in U.S. elections either. Foreign Minister Wanna Maung Lwin drew awkward laughter Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations when he likened ...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday secured 41 votes in the U.S. Senate for the international nuclear deal with Iran, just enough to block a final vote on a measure of disapproval. Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Gary Peters and Ron Wyden all announced they would support ...
Getting youngsters to vote in next year's Upper House election may mean coaxing them to be more independent-minded once they leave the nest. And with Japan welcoming 18- and 19-year-olds at ballot boxes next summer, the government is targeting high school students who leave home ...
With the voting age being lowered to 18 next year, young people must be better educated about the role they should play to help keep Japan's democracy healthy.
With the voting age lowered to 18 from 20, an estimated 2.4 million people, including high school students, will be allowed to vote for the first time in next summer's Upper House election. But as political apathy among youth runs strong, lobbyists, educators and officials ...
The move represents the biggest reform of Japan’s electoral laws in 70 years, and an attempt to encourage younger voters to be more politically active.
