More Sports / Football Nov 5, 2020
Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes gets back to football after election day
Mahomes was a major factor in turning Arrowhead Stadium into a polling place.
More Sports Nov 4, 2020
Political activism replaces practice, games in U.S. sports world
Just past noon on Election Day, after casting her vote where the NBA’s Wizards and NHL’s Capitals play, Mary Pittman exited through one of the arena’s glass doors. Perched on the 77-year-old retiree’s walker: a stars-and-stripes hat touting the basketball team, autographed on the ...
World / Politics Nov 27, 2019
Britain's December election prompt surge in voter registrations
The number of Britons registering to vote before a midnight deadline expired on Tuesday was up 31 percent compared to a similar period before a 2017 election, with data showing almost 4 million registrations ahead of the Dec. 12 election. The outcome of the election, ...
Asia Pacific / Politics Feb 26, 2019
A month ahead of election, Thailand's billionaire rising political star is energizing young voters
Young people line up to take selfies with him. His hashtags are trending. And when billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit promises an end to Thailand's military "dictatorship," supporters of his Future Forward Party roar their approval. The 40-year-old heir to an auto parts fortune is a political ...
National Jun 11, 2018
Tokyo District Court holds first hearing on expats' right to vote on Supreme Court justices
by Sakura Murakami
Five Japanese living abroad claimed at the Tokyo District Court on Monday that their inability to participate in national reviews of Supreme Court justices was unconstitutional. "I've always felt that voting is my right and duty," Kazuhiro Soda, a documentary filmmaker based in New York, ...
National / Politics Oct 20, 2017
Some 80 percent of students polled say they plan to vote after turning 18, the minimum voting age, according to a private think tank. The survey, released Wednesday, collected postal responses from some 11,000 children ranging from fourth grade to high school in summer 2016. ...
National Jul 8, 2016
Wakayama youth group urges teens to 'end voting virginity'
by Tomohiro Osaki
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 ...
National / Politics May 2, 2016
Systemic avoidance of political issues by schools keeps youth vote in the dark
by Ayako Mie and Tomohiro Osaki
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.
Editorials Mar 24, 2016
Municipalities must do their best to make it easier for residents to vote in upcoming elections.
National / Politics Jan 21, 2016
Lower House passes bill to preserve voting rights for new electors
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 ...
National / Crime & Legal Jan 7, 2016
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 ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 24, 2015
Drunken Osaka man with history of violence at polling stations attacks official in his 70s
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 ...