**Electoral only available in Japanese**
General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1947, updated 2007)

• Article 15 states, “The people have the inalienable right to choose their public officials and to dismiss them. All public officials are servants of the whole community and not of any group thereof. Universal adult suffrage is guaranteed with regard to the election of public officials. In all elections, secrecy of the ballot shall not be violated. A voter shall not be answerable, publicly or privately, for the choice he has made.”

• Constitution - http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/constitution_and_government_of_japan/constitution_e.html
• Electoral Law - See Attached