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Hajime Funada, chairman of Liberal Democratic Party’s Headquarters for Promotion of Revision to the Constitution. Deliberations have started on a bill to lower the minimum voting age to 18 from 20, in time for next year’s House of Councillors election. (Yomiuri Shimbun)
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We’ve been aiming to apply the revised law to the next upper house election. The nation’s democracy will be bettered by the expansion of the voting age.
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shallots
Having them realize their stake in the future is difficult when they've been trained so perfectly to be passive and apathetic. But this is a good idea anyway. Maybe most university students don't even know this is happening.