Some 80 percent of students polled in Japan say they would cast a ballot in elections after turning 18, the minimum voting age, according to a private think-tank survey.The survey, which collected answers by mail from some 11,000 children ranging from fourth graders to high school students in the summer of 2016, also showed that those with parents who were enthusiastic about voting tended to say they would vote.Japan's 18- and 19-year-olds will get their first chance to vote in a House of Representatives election on Sunday after a revised electoral law was implemented last year to lower the…READ FULL ARTICLE
