🇯🇵How does Japan mark What voting asks of you, country by country?

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Japan gives the vote at eighteen — the line has stood there since the reduction in 2016 — and the Ministry of Internal Affairs adds that to vote in a prefectural or municipal election you must also have lived in that municipality for three continuous months. National elections carry no such residence requirement, so the same voter faces different conditions depending on which election it is. Polling stations open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. as a rule; only in special circumstances may a municipal election commission move those hours, and the closing time may only be brought forward. Election day is conventionally a Sunday, and because early voting is available, many people never vote on the day itself. Counting starts that evening and the shape of the result is usually clear by the small hours.