Post-Election, Pneumonia & So Long Yakuza and Thanks for the Care Facility! [Podcast Episode]
A Post-election in Japan digest podcast episode, full of pneumonia and abandoned Yakuza facilities!
Category: Election
Parents’ Association created pamphlet to support voters with intellectual disabilities
In order to encourage disabled young people over 18 to exercise their voting rights, a Fukushima City group made up of parents with intellectually disabled children created a pamphlet introducing the “proxy voting system” for the upcoming House of Representatives election, and is calling for active voting.
The “proxy voting system” is a system in which a polling station official can write the ballot for you if you have difficulty filling it out yourself due to a disability, illness, or injury.
Election Day in Japan: The Podcast Episode of ‘Do it Yourself!!’ [Podcast Episode]
As this blog post is being written it is 8PM on Sunday 27th October, the polls have just closed and NHK is predicting that the LDP and New Komeito may lose their majority.
The polling place near where Barrier Free Japan lives in Kobe had NHK crew near it in the morning and were asking questions about how people voted, and what they thought about far right groups like the ‘Sanseito’, a party that in English refers to themselves as the ‘Party of Do it Yourself!!’
On the Eve of an Election in Japan [Podcast Episode]
Tomorrow, Sunday October 27th 2024, is a general election in Japan, or more specifically, an election for the ‘lower house’ the House of Representatives. I did think it was kind of cool that Hiromi Fujisue, the Japanese Communist Party Candidate for the Hyogo 1st District, passed by me and seemed to waved at me from her van whilst canvassing today.
Ahead of Lower House Election, Japan Council of Disabled People Calls for Improvements to Enable Ability to Vote [Podcast Episode]
The request calls for (1) the preparation of materials with the list of candidates written in Braille or large print, (2) permission to have a helper accompany people when voting, and (3) publicizing the fact that people who have difficulty moving around can vote by post, and people who have difficulty writing can vote by proxy by having a polling station employee write for them.
Ahead of Lower House Election, Japan Council of Disabled People Calls for Improvements to Enable Ability to Vote
On October 18th, the Japan Council of Disabled People, an NPO made up of groups for disabled people, requested the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to improve the barrier-free environment at polling stations so that disabled people can vote smoothly in the Lower House election. They said there are differences in the way election commissions handle things depending on the city, ward, town, and village, and called for the thorough use of the collection of support cases created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
The Shog-A.I. Shimbun Podcast #23: Writer and Disability Activist Hirotada Ototake Speaking After Conceding Tokyo By-Election
Author of ‘No One’s Perfect’, Hirotada Ototake who ran as an independent in Tokyo’s 15th district in a by-election for a seat in House of Representatives on Sunday 28th April, came in fifth, about 30,000 votes behind the winner.
Man arrested over assault of Tokyo by-election campaign staffer of disabled candidate, Hirotada Ototake
Tokyo police on Tuesday turned over to prosecutors a 41-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a staff member of Lower House by-election candidate Hirotada Ototake during a campaign speech.
LDP Not to Endorse Disabled Author Ototake in Tokyo By-Election
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Friday that it will not give a recommendation on author Hirotada Ototake in the April 28 House of Representatives by-election in the Tokyo No. 15 constituency. The LDP, headed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, was considering whether to support Ototake as a recommended candidate after giving up fielding its own candidate for the constituency.
Yukio Edano, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, stands on a ‘Tenjin’ block’ meant for the blind whilst making speech
Yukio Edano, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, pictured here, stands on a ‘Tenjin’ block’ or ‘Tactile tile’ on October 16th as he makes a speech, possibly impeding access for people with visual impairments.
