Voting age lowered to 18
Revised Public Office Election Law passed.
June 17, 2015, Tokyo, Japan - Japanese youngsters hang around in Tokyo's Shibuya on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, on the day the parliament Some 2.4 million people aged 18 and 19 will have the right to vote in an upper house election slated for the summer of 2016. The voting age was last changed in 1945, when it was lowered from 25 to 20. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-