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As I write this chapter in the Fall of 2015, things are changing rather dramatically. We have recently witnessed two incidents that may raise Japanese youth’s social awareness and involvement. First, the Diet passed a bill that lowered the voting age from 20 to 18 in June 2015; youth as young as 12th grade will start going to the polls. Second, from August to September this year, many people including students took to the streets—this is something unusual in Japan at least in the past 30 years—protesting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “re-interpretation” of the pacifist provision of the Constitution and the passage of bills that would allow Self-Defense Forces to be deployed overseas. I hope that these incidents will lead to youth’s greater engagement, but the prospect is uncertain at this point of time.
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Takaya, K. (2017). Citizenship Education in Japan: Past, Present, and Future. In: Broom, C. (eds) Youth Civic Engagement in a Globalized World. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56533-4_7
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