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Japan's opposition parties are seeking to bolster their presence in local assemblies, raising the possibility that unified local elections in spring next year will be highly competitive. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/21/japan/politics/japan-opposition-parties-local-elections/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #2027localelections #dpp #sanseito #yuichirotamaki #soheikamiya #teammirai

Japan's opposition parties are seeking to bolster their presence in local assemblies, raising the possibility that unified local elections in spring next year will be highly competitive. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/21/japan/politics/japan-opposition-parties-local-elections/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #2027localelections #dpp #sanseito #yuichirotamaki #soheikamiya #teammirai

Japan's opposition parties are seeking to bolster their presence in local assemblies, raising the possibility that unified local elections in spring next year will be highly competitive. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/21/japan/politics/japan-opposition-parties-local-elections/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #2027localelections #dpp #sanseito #yuichirotamaki #soheikamiya #teammirai

Japan's opposition parties are seeking to bolster their presence in local assemblies, raising the possibility that unified local elections in spring next year will be highly competitive. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/21/japan/politics/japan-opposition-parties-local-elections/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #2027localelections #dpp #sanseito #yuichirotamaki #soheikamiya #teammirai

Opposition party Team Mirai will consider whether to join the ruling coalition if requested to do so by the Liberal Democratic Party, leader Takahiro Anno has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/17/japan/politics/team-mirai-leader-takahiro-anno/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #teammirai #ldp #lowerhouse #upperhouse

Opposition party Team Mirai will consider whether to join the ruling coalition if requested to do so by the Liberal Democratic Party, leader Takahiro Anno has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/17/japan/politics/team-mirai-leader-takahiro-anno/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #teammirai #ldp #lowerhouse #upperhouse

Opposition party Team Mirai will consider whether to join the ruling coalition if requested to do so by the Liberal Democratic Party, leader Takahiro Anno has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/17/japan/politics/team-mirai-leader-takahiro-anno/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #teammirai #ldp #lowerhouse #upperhouse

Opposition party Team Mirai will consider whether to join the ruling coalition if requested to do so by the Liberal Democratic Party, leader Takahiro Anno has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/17/japan/politics/team-mirai-leader-takahiro-anno/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #teammirai #ldp #lowerhouse #upperhouse

The ruling parties on Thursday proposed establishing a constitutional amendment drafting committee soon within the Commission on the Constitution in the House of Representatives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/10/japan/politics/constitutional-amendment-drafting-committee/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #constitution #ldp #nipponishinnokai #dpp #cra #teammirai #jcp #sanseito

The ruling parties on Thursday proposed establishing a constitutional amendment drafting committee soon within the Commission on the Constitution in the House of Representatives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/10/japan/politics/constitutional-amendment-drafting-committee/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #constitution #ldp #nipponishinnokai #dpp #cra #teammirai #jcp #sanseito

The ruling parties on Thursday proposed establishing a constitutional amendment drafting committee soon within the Commission on the Constitution in the House of Representatives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/10/japan/politics/constitutional-amendment-drafting-committee/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #constitution #ldp #nipponishinnokai #dpp #cra #teammirai #jcp #sanseito

The ruling parties on Thursday proposed establishing a constitutional amendment drafting committee soon within the Commission on the Constitution in the House of Representatives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/10/japan/politics/constitutional-amendment-drafting-committee/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #constitution #ldp #nipponishinnokai #dpp #cra #teammirai #jcp #sanseito

"Imagine an election where every voter has the opportunity to opine directly to politicians on precisely the issues they care about. They’re not expected to spend hours becoming policy experts. Instead, an AI Interviewer walks them through the subject, answering their questions, interrogating their experience, even challenging their thinking.

Voters get immediate feedback on how their individual point of view matches—or doesn’t—a party’s platform, and they can see whether and how the party adopts their feedback. This isn’t like an opinion poll that politicians use for calculating short-term electoral tactics. It’s a deliberative reasoning process that scales, engaging voters in defining policy and helping candidates to listen deeply to their constituents.

This is happening today in Japan. Constituents have spent about eight thousand hours engaging with Mirai’s AI Interviewer since 2025. The party’s gamified volunteer mobilization app, Action Board, captured about 100,000 organizer actions per day in the runup to last week’s election.

It’s how Team Mirai, which translates to ‘The Future Party,’ does politics. Its founder, Takahiro Anno, first ran for local office in 2024 as a 33 year old software engineer standing for Governor of Tokyo. He came in fifth out of 56 candidates, winning more than 150,000 votes as an unaffiliated political outsider. He won attention by taking a distinctive stance on the role of technology in democracy and using AI aggressively in voter engagement.

Last year, Anno ran again, this time for the Upper Chamber of the national legislature—the Diet—and won. Now the head of a new national party, Anno found himself with a platform for making his vision of a new way of doing politics a reality."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/team-mirai-and-democracy.html

#AI #Japan #TeamMirai #AIPolitics #Democracy #ParticipatoryDemocracy

The CRA and DPP declined to participate Thursday a panel on temporarily lifting the consumption tax on groceries, where political wrangling had been expected between the ruling and opposition parties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/japan/politics/consumption-tax-panel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #consumptiontax #taxes #ldp #jip #dpp #cra #teammirai #sanaetakaichi

As many industries in Japan face an acute labor shortage, Team Mirai — a political party that won 11 seats in the Lower House election — suggests foreign workers can be replaced by artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/17/japan/politics/team-mirai-immigration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #teammirai #foreignworkers #foreigntrainees #expats #immigration

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big win on Sunday left the opposition camp dividing unequal shares of the political pie. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/10/japan/politics/election-opposition-parties/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #cra #dpp #sanseito #teammirai #2026lowerhouseelection

The Liberal Democratic Party is on track for an overwhelming landslide victory in Japan’s Lower House election, NHK projections show. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/08/japan/politics/japan-2026-lower-house-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #2026lowerhouseelection #sanaetakaichi #ldp #jip #yoshihikonoda #cra #dpp #sanseito #jcp #reiwashinsengumi #teammirai

Team Mirai — a small, 9-month-old party — could win more seats in Sunday’s general election than its more established peers such as the Japanese Communist Party and Reiwa Shinsengumi, the results of a weekend poll show. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/04/japan/politics/team-mirai-takahiro-anno/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #teammirai #takahiroanno #ai #2026lowerhouseelection

Some LDP officials are sounding out independent lawmakers about working together for a majority in the Upper House. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/04/japan/politics/independent-members-ldp-coalition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #teammirai #takahiroanno #komeito

An opposition push to abolish a provisional gasoline tax is the first test facing the minority government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after it lost control of the Upper House. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/25/japan/politics/gas-tax-bill/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #cdp #shigeruishiba #gas #diet #nipponishinnokai #dpp #reiwashinsengumi #sanseito #jcp #sdp #teammirai #cpj