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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2015
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 2, 2015
LDP panel delays adopting proposals to change drinking, smoking age a day after unveiling the plan
Strong opposition from LDP members to lowering the legal age from 20 to 18 meant the panel will discuss the matter again next week to revise the proposals.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 30, 2015
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.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 7, 2015
Obama again calls for restoration of Voting Rights Act in face of Republican opposition
Half a century after the U.S. passed a law intended to give all its citizens equal access to the voting booth, President Barack Obama said that protection is at risk.
EDITORIALS
Jul 19, 2015
Encouraging political participation
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.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 14, 2015
Education key in getting young people to vote
If Japan wants its young people to vote, it needs to educate them about their civic rights and responsibilities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 2, 2015
Will lower voting age bring youths to polls?
In the United States it took political activism triggered by protests over the Vietnam War to start serious debate about lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 28, 2015
Majority of teens intend to go to polls when voting age drops next year
A majority of the people who will become eligible to vote when the voting age drops to 18 from 20 next June, intend to cast ballots in next summer's pivotal Upper House election, an online survey conducted by Kyodo News found.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 17, 2015
Diet enacts law lowering voting age to 18 from 20
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.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jun 15, 2015
Let's discuss voting age limits in the news
The move to lower the voting age will give an estimated 2.4 million people aged 18 and 19 suffrage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 4, 2015
House of Representatives passes bill to lower voting age
The legislation to reduce the minimum voting age to 18 from 20 will enfranchise some 2.4 million 18- and 19-year-olds ahead of next year's House of Councilors election.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 4, 2015
18 looms as new age of majority
Japan's youth will finally get a chance to have their voices heard in politics.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 24, 2015
Two more high courts question validity of 2014 Lower House election
The Hiroshima High Court and the Sendai High Court's Akita branch rule that last December's Lower House election was “in a state of unconstitutionality” due to the disparity in the weight of votes between districts.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 19, 2015
Vote disparity in 2014 Lower House election is constitutional, Tokyo High Court rules
Presiding Judge Toru Odan said the Diet has been taking measures to 'redress the situation' by, for instance, reducing the number of single-seat constituencies to 295 from 300.
EDITORIALS
Mar 9, 2015
A voice for 18-year-olds
It is hoped that lowering Japan's minimum voting age for elections from 20 to 18 — as the Diet now seems certain to approve in time for the Upper House election next year — will encourage political participation by more youths just as Japan faces a host of long-term policy challenges that will directly affect young people's future.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 6, 2015
Major parties submit bill to lower voting age to 18 next year
The nation's top political parties have submitted a bill to amend the electoral law to lower the voting age for national elections to 18 from 20.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2015
Lawmakers get ready to lower voting age to 18 next year
The voting age for national elections will be lowered to 18 from the current 20, starting with the next Upper House election in summer 2016, as both ruling and opposition parties are set to submit the necessary legislation to the Diet as early as next week.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 14, 2014
Japan takes a step toward lowering voting age to 18
The political parties represented in the Diet took a step Friday toward lowering the nation's minimum voting age from 20 to the international norm of 18, in line with an accord reached earlier this year.
BUSINESS
Aug 13, 2014
Life insurers to show criteria for voting as shareholders
Major life insurers will release by the end of this month guidelines detailing how they will try to reflect their opinions at shareholders' meetings for the companies in which they hold stakes, industry sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 20, 2014
Voting age set to fall as referendum revision hits
The revised national referendum law took effect Friday, setting the stage for the minimum voting age to drop to 18 from 20 in four years.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.

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