Towards an Open Democratic Japan: Freedom of Voting, Secrecy, and the Public Offices Election Act

The Public Offices Election Act is the law that allows citizens to elect members of the National Diet, members and heads of local government assemblies, and others through elections, based on the Constitution of Japan.

Main Contents

• Right to Vote and Eligibility for Election: Defines the requirements for the right to vote (the right to cast a ballot) and eligibility for election (the right to run for office). It includes provisions regarding age, residency requirements, and suspension of civil rights.

• Types of Elections: Establishes regulations for each type of election, such as elections for members of the House of Representatives, the House of Councillors, and members and heads of local government assemblies.

• Election Campaigns: Defines the methods, periods, and restrictions for election campaigns. It sets rules to ensure fair elections while guaranteeing the freedom of campaigning.

• Voting: Defines the methods, locations, and times for voting. It includes provisions to guarantee the secrecy of the ballot and the freedom of voting.

• Ballot Counting and Election Results: Defines the methods for counting ballots, confirming election results, and determining the winners.

• Election Litigation: Defines the legal procedures for cases where there is an objection to the election results.

• Penalties: Defines penalties for illegal acts related to elections. It prohibits acts that undermine the fairness of elections, such as bribery, intimidation, and interference with voting.

Major Recent Amendments

• Lowering the Voting Age: In 2015, the voting age was lowered from 20 to 18.

• Legalization of Internet Election Campaigns: Under certain conditions, election campaigning using the internet has become permitted.

Other

The Public Offices Election Act is an essential law that supports the electoral system, which forms the foundation of democracy. Various provisions are in place to maintain the fairness of elections and ensure that the will of the people is correctly reflected in politics.

For more detailed information, you can check the articles and related information on the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications website.

This concludes the information from the AI assistant.

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I feel that the world is finally beginning to notice and awaken to the questions I have held throughout my life while living in Japanese society with the genetic program of Japanese parents.

Voting based on individual free will, free from the separation of politics and religion and from collective organizational pressure.

That is the 'major premise' of 'democracy'.

Why is it that in this country of Japan, the very fundamental premise is always, always ignored and left behind?

Surely, children who do not yet have the right to vote must be the ones thinking '???' about the information from old media.

'Are the people in charge being completely contradictory? Isn't this wrong?'

They must be thinking that.

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If you choose a class representative based on 'religion' or 'interest groups,' can that be called a 'democratic vote'?

Even if it sounds ridiculous, adults should try thinking about that for a moment.

Originally, each vote is meant to 'entrust the representation of the sovereign to that individual.'

Bribery, intimidation, and interference with voting.

If a collective organization were to confirm and check voting behavior, that would be a 'violation of the Public Offices Election Act,' but is that really the case?

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I feel that preparations and groundwork for the arrival and dawn of a new era are steadily progressing.

A new ecosystem for Homo sapiens, involving biological science and quantum engineering, has already begun.

Finally, after three centuries have passed,

'Japan returns to a state where it flourishes at the center of the human world (Japan is back).'

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When viewing the Homo sapiens ecosystem from the water planet Earth, the Japanese archipelago is 'geographically unique.'

People who crossed over from the continent during the ice age were 'left behind' when the ice age ended.

That is where it begins.

Various 'immigrants' gradually mingled there, depicting a unique culture and civilization.

'A-I' = 'Love', 'I', 'love', 'AI'

The 'characters' and 'phonology' of the native Japanese language. Are these mere coincidences?

From the perspective that Homo sapiens are biological beings who transmit information from parent to child as mammals, and from the historical facts revealed by genetic analysis, it is an 'inevitability'.

The fact that the Japanese language itself is a 'language that has been inherited and constructed through multilingual elements'.

Our linguistic and cultural system and ecology already possess 'common concepts that resonate with all of humanity'.

It can be called both the 'farthest land of humanity that began in Africa' and the 'navel/center'.

Though not the mother of Kyojuro Rengoku, the Japanese people born on the Japanese archipelago surely have a duty to fulfill toward the human race on Earth.

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Geopolitically, and even from the perspective of the ecosystem balance of Homo sapiens, isn't 'Japan is back' something that, in a sense, human society outside of the Japanese people has been waiting for even more than the Japanese people themselves have?

Japanese society is still fixated on a 'self-deprecating historical view' and the 'taboos of old media,' but the rest of humanity is already 'beginning to awaken'.

'The awakening of people's consciousness'

Why is 'nuclear deterrence' still necessary? Does 'diplomacy' that uses 'threats' and 'holds human lives hostage'—things no one wants to use—still exist in the 'international community'?

The 'political systems based on ideological group organizations' known as 'capitalism, communism, and socialism' have ultimately failed to provide 'freedom and liberation' to Homo sapiens, instead leading to 'subjugation, exploitation, and conformity,' while 'discrimination,' 'prejudice,' and 'stigma' continue to erode human society.

Why is that?

In the year 2025, the awakening is expanding day by day.

The fact that the individual will and behavioral choices of each and every person, in their respective places and environments, will influence and shape everything in the future.

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'Free Society' vs 'Subjugated State'

In 2025, has the conflict structure regarding the global environment within the Homo sapiens ecology not become clear?

Conclusions will soon be reached regarding 'reinforcement' vs. 'unsupervised' learning in the 'quantum/electronic' worlds of 'Artificial Intelligence (AI)' and 'SNS'.

In a sense, that could become the scientific and objective factual basis for 'Homo sapiens and cosmic truth'.

The 'answer' is likely the natural world, where 'as it is' and 'free will' are shaped by genetic programs with no right or wrong answers and the mechanics of dimensional domains.

If I am to believe the metaphysics that personally come down to me, I feel that I have 'made it in time'.

Despite how long it felt, looking back, the moment the glass ceiling shattered was surprisingly anticlimactic.

It shattered into pieces. Then, the vast amount of accumulated waste and impurities were released, and the remaining issues that need to be purified are becoming clear.

I feel the immeasurable potential of the inhabitants of the online world, such as SNS, namely the 'neo-otaku'.

There will be a movement to return to the origins of each ethnicity, nation, ideological state, and region, and while solving the issues within each, will each Homo sapiens be able to withstand a social structure updated to the singularity? Might the next few years be a 'landing/halftime' to examine this without involving other countries?

Meanwhile, the Earth, along with the solar system, will continue to transform due to the power of the spacetime winds of this Milky Way galaxy.

'Quantum biotechnology' will accelerate and have a profound impact on humanity, and structural reform of the social ecosystem itself will proceed.

After the rain, the ground hardens.

We humans, day by day, continue to 'update' and 'turn over' towards tomorrow, because we are meant to carefully pass on the genetic programs inherited from our ancestral spirits to the descendants of the future who we have yet to see.

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From here on, a 'Shin-Democracy' (New Democracy) of 'Homo sapiens, nature, and rationalism' will truly begin.

Let us cast off the polluted, muddy currents of the past into the natural world.

The Earth is far more magnificent and wise than humanity thinks.

Homo sapiens is still being kept alive. That is also proof that we, as Homo sapiens, are beings worthy of living.

There is no such thing as perfect justice or a perfect answer.

There is only 'as it is' and 'as it happens.' There is only the 'here and now' harmonized by the causality of the multiverse.

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Thank you for reading.

I have decided to practice uploading my essays to "note" as they are, leaving behind as much of my unfiltered thoughts as I can, while I am still here, not knowing when my time might end.
I hope that my "note" will lead you, and those beyond you, to a future of tranquility and a peaceful home for the heart. I hope that all people living as humans on this planet find that something, and that the flow—like the wind and water nurtured by different lives—carries the ability to feel and share whenever you are lost. "This very moment." I always hope that this encounter will be something meaningful.