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, ...
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 ...
Tokyo District Court holds first hearing on expats' right to vote on Supreme Court justices
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, ...
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. ...
Wakayama youth group urges teens to 'end voting virginity'
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 ...
Systemic avoidance of political issues by schools keeps youth vote in the dark
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Democrats deliver as Obama musters 41 key Senate votes to back Iran nuclear deal
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 ...
Changing residence registries seen as key for young voter turnout in Japan
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 ...
