In this House of Representatives election, posts calling for votes with hashtags are spreading on SNS.
On the 23rd, the first weekend after the House of Representatives election was announced, there are more posts on SNS reporting that younger generations went to vote on Twitter.
NHK used a dedicated tool to analyze posts related to the House of Representatives election on Twitter for seven days until the 22nd.
In many posts on Twitter, keywords and passwords called hashtags are added to the text, but as a result of analysis, the most common one was to call for a vote such as "#I will vote too".
There are about 900,000 such posts in 7 days, including retweets.
There are about 50 types of hashtags that call for voting, such as "I will vote", "Let's go to vote", and "govote".
Also, since the election day at the end of this month coincides with Halloween, there are things like "Let's go to the election for this year's Halloween."
In addition, there is a growing movement to share posters and illustrations that call for votes designed by illustrators and manga artists on SNS.
A woman in her thirties who posted "Let's enjoy pop music in elections" with colorful illustrations said, "I wanted to choose the future with my own hands for the future of ourselves and loved ones." I posted it with the hope that more people of the same generation would go to vote. "