Right to vote and right to vote

●Right to vote
The right to vote is one of the rights of the people stipulated in the Constitution of Japan, and can be obtained by Japanese citizens aged 18 and over. However, in order to vote in an election, the name must be listed on the municipality's electoral list.
Once registered in the electoral list, it will be permanently effective except in the case of death or loss of nationality.
To the electoral list page

●Right to be elected

The right to be elected refers to the right to run for an election. The requirements vary depending on the type of election.

However, the following persons do not have the right to vote or be elected.

1) Persons who are sentenced to imprisonment or higher and until their execution is completed.
2) Persons who are sentenced to imprisonment or higher and are no longer able to receive their execution (excluding those who are suspended from execution)
3) A person who has been sentenced to bribery for committing a bribery while in public office and has not passed five years (10 years for the right to vote) after the prison term has expired, or has been suspended from execution.
4) Persons who have been sentenced to imprisonment or higher for crimes related to elections stipulated by the Public Office Election Law or other laws and are suspended from execution of such sentences
5) A person who has been sentenced to a fine or higher for a crime related to an election stipulated in the Public Office Election Law and whose right to vote or be elected has been suspended.
6) A person who has been sentenced to a fine or higher due to a crime stipulated in the Electromagnetic Recording Voting Act and whose right to vote or be elected has been suspended.

7) A person who has been sentenced to a fine or higher due to a crime stipulated in the Political Funds Control Law and whose right to vote or be elected has been suspended.

8) Restrictions on the right to be elected through a concurrency system
→Concurrent system

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At present, if you are a Japanese citizen, you can get the right to vote at the age of 18, but in 1889, it was a right only for men over 25 years old and direct tax taxpayers of 15 yen or more . In 1925, tax payment qualifications were abolished due to the enforcement of the General Election Law, and in 1945, the Election Law, including women's suffrage, was revised, and a complete general election system was realized.
In the case of Yokohama, it became a city in 1889, and at the same time City Counsil was born. At that time, the city council election was a method of dividing the total tax payment into three equal parts and selecting the same number of members (12) from each class. . It was a strict restriction election for only boys aged 25 and over who paid a national tax of 2 yen or more directly. The majority of electors were legislators, and the rich chose the rich.