YOUTH APATHY
Only lowering the voting age is not enough. Fresh voters must be encouraged to show energetic support and to foster a sense of their deliberate political participation.
Japan’s decision to reduce the voting age was no unavoidable, but a response to particular incentives- generally tied to legal revision. A proposed national referendum law would have reduced the voting age, in addition to the LDP’s liberal stance and scientific observations of a conventional shift among younger demographics. Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister, acknowledged the potential impact of legal change based on the children vote.
The reduction in the voting age was not only motivated by raising social awareness among young people. Instead, this was a tactical maneuver to improve the LDP’s historic passion of amending Japan’s pacifist law, especially Article 9.
Five federal elections have taken place in Japan since the introduction of the new election time laws in 2015. Younger generations have a preference for the LDP, despite the persistance of children indifference toward politics.
According to an exit surveys conducted by NHK for the 2021 House of Representatives vote, 43 per share of 18- and 19- season- olds, and 41 per share of people in their 20s, voted for the LDP in the equal representation ballot.
For citizens in their 30s, 39 per share voted LDP. For those in their 40s and 50s, it was 36 per cent, and for citizens in their 60s, it was 34 per cent. The LDP is supported by young people who place security preceding social change.
In a republic, people view entails common pressure on authorities choices. In the United States, for example, the 1971 legal act to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 reflected open mind. The authorities changed the voting age to 18 when the Vietnam War sparked the powerful phrase” Old enough to fight, old enough to vote” and the electorate rallied in favor of it. However, Japan’s decision to lower the voting age was not given any such incentive.
The effectiveness of these plans is also heavily influenced by the parliamentary procedure that lowers the voting age. The important part of process-oriented understanding has been overlooked, despite the research that has focused on the effects of these changes.