Shukutoku University produced the election enlightenment booklet "First Election" for young people in collaboration with the Itabashi Ward Election Commission.Efforts will be made in line with the Upper House election, which will be held by lowering the voting age to 18 years or older, which will lead to an increase in the turnout of young people.
At the university, students from the Faculty of Community Policy play a central role in proposing the establishment of an early voting center on the Chiba campus in the Upper House election, which will be counted on July 2016, 7.The Yaoita Shunpei laboratory of the same department has created its own teaching materials for "sovereign education" mainly for high school students and has made them available on the Internet.
This time, 3 third-year students of Nomura Seminar, who are studying editorial expression in the Department of Expression, Faculty of Humanities, worked on the production of "First Election". Starting with the discussion "Why young people don't go to elections," he worked on planning, interviewing, writing, and editing.The completed booklet is a total of 10 pages of A5 version with a yellow cover. It includes contrasting articles such as "This will happen when young people go to elections" and "This will happen if they don't go", "Simple question Q & A about elections", and "Guide to gathering information on voting".
The "First Election" was distributed to all universities, vocational schools, and high schools in Itabashi Ward through the Itabashi Ward Election Commission.In addition, at the election event held at AEON STYLE Itabashi Maenocho store on June 2016, 6, students distributed booklets themselves and called for voting.
reference:[Shukutoku University] First Election (PDF)
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