This year, elections for directors, branch committee members, and other positions will be held.
Regarding the election, at the board meeting held on December 5, 2023, Article 4 of the branch regulations was revised.
This is related to the election of branch representatives.

Until now, board member elections and branch elections have been conducted using the lists of electors and candidates finalized around March.
However, the personnel changes in April were not reflected in the roster, and frequent corrections and remakes placed a heavy burden on those in charge of elections at the local branches.
To slightly reduce the burden of election administration and to conduct elections with as accurate a voter list as possible, we asked each branch to consider the following, and received approval from all branches.
○Postpone the compilation period for the electoral roll and the list of eligible candidates to create them in April.
Move up the election timing of the branch representative committee members to elect them at the same time as the directors
In response to this, it was resolved to amend Article 4, Section 2 of the branch regulations to better reflect the selection process.

This year, the election of branch representatives, which has conventionally been held around June, will instead take place around May.

Prior to the election, we would like to inform everyone.

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Branch Regulation Article 4
Former
2 The election of branch representative committee members shall be conducted by secret ballot with multiple votes allowed up to the fixed quota for each branch, and candidates with the highest number of votes up to the fixed quota shall be elected. In the event of a tie in votes, the member born later shall be ranked higher.
　
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2 The selection of branch representative committee candidates shall be conducted for each branch. Based on the candidate rankings from the board member election results, excluding board member candidates, it shall be up to the fixed number of members with the highest vote counts. In the event of a tie in votes, members with later dates of birth shall be declared elected.
3 If a candidate for director or a director becomes absent for any reason, they shall become a runner-up candidate in order of the number of votes received. Those already appointed as branch representative committee members are also included among such candidates. For branch representative committee members where a vacancy has occurred, new runners-up shall also be elected in order of the number of votes received.
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