June 12, 2025
Akahata learned on June 11 that the Japanese Communist Party was ranked number one in a children’s poll regarding each political party’s policies on educational issues in Japan and abroad.
The SDG4 Education Campaign, a global initiative launched by UNESCO to promote UN Sustainable Development Goal 4, conducted this poll.
As part of the Campaign, targeted children were presented with answers from seven political parties, with their names omitted, to six questions of what to do to achieve the SDG 4 “quality education for all,” including the children’s right to express their opinions. The children were then asked to vote for the answers they would support the most.
As a result, the JCP came in first place. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was tied for last place with the “Nippon Ishin no Kai” party.
On the same day as the poll results were released, JCP member of the House of Representatives Motomura Nobuko and JCP members of the House of Councilors Kira Yoshiko and Inoue Satoshi met with youth members of the Campaign in the Diet building. The youth members asked for JCP support for the improvement in education of children’s rights, the guarantee of compulsory education for foreign children, and a declaration of safe schools.
JCP Kira said, “Our party believes that politics must recognize that children are subject to the right to education and their opinions must be reflected in policies.”
The SDG4 Education Campaign, a global initiative launched by UNESCO to promote UN Sustainable Development Goal 4, conducted this poll.
As part of the Campaign, targeted children were presented with answers from seven political parties, with their names omitted, to six questions of what to do to achieve the SDG 4 “quality education for all,” including the children’s right to express their opinions. The children were then asked to vote for the answers they would support the most.
As a result, the JCP came in first place. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was tied for last place with the “Nippon Ishin no Kai” party.
On the same day as the poll results were released, JCP member of the House of Representatives Motomura Nobuko and JCP members of the House of Councilors Kira Yoshiko and Inoue Satoshi met with youth members of the Campaign in the Diet building. The youth members asked for JCP support for the improvement in education of children’s rights, the guarantee of compulsory education for foreign children, and a declaration of safe schools.
JCP Kira said, “Our party believes that politics must recognize that children are subject to the right to education and their opinions must be reflected in policies.”
