Vortrag von Anne-Sophie L. König, M.A.: „The so-called narite busoku problem: Understanding why the shortage of candidates for town and village assembly elections in Japan is worsening“
Since the nation-wide unified local elections in 2019, the buzz word narite busoku (shortage of candidates) has become common in news reports on Japan’s municipal election. This shortage consequently leads to a rise of uncontested elections - elections that end without voting as there are not more candidates than seats up for election. Both trends have become...