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  • Household Registration and Suffrage in Post World War II Japan: The case of the Unregistered (Mukosekisha)

  • Hajime Akiyama
  • Journal:
    Asia-Pacific Journal / Volume 16 / Issue 15 / August 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 March 2025, e4
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  • This paper examines the suffrage rights of mukosekisha: Japanese who are not listed in a household registration (koseki). It explains that Japanese who are not listed in a household registration do not enjoy the right to vote unless they are recorded in a resident record (jūmin hyō), which differs from the household registration. Moreover, a provision in the Public Offices Election Act enacted soon after World War II may prevent some Japanese who are not listed in a household registration from exercising their right to vote even if they are recorded in a resident record. This out-dated provision should be amended to allow the right to vote of Japanese who are not listed in a household registration but are recorded in a resident record.