地方議会 civic data 研究室

National Distribution of Deferral Phrasing in Assembly Responses — A Structural Analysis of 18.97 Million Records from 870 Municipalities

Aggregated across 870 Japanese municipalities and roughly 18.97 million assembly responses, the share of deferral phrasing — including 'kentou shimasu' (we will consider) and its variants — has a weighted national mean of 3.58% and a municipality-level range from 0% to 21%. Even at the prefectural level, the median spans roughly an elevenfold range. The article reads this as a structural observation, not a ranking.

Machikarte Research Lab — Hypotheses and Overview: Reading Assembly Speeches as Observations

A research lab built on a cross-searchable record of speeches from all 1,788 Japanese local assemblies, designed to read the data as observations rather than verdicts. The subject is structural — distribution, propagation, and silence across municipalities — not individual condemnation. Differentiation rests on data quality assurance, verification scripts, and transparent editorial judgment.

Literature Map: A Lineage of Local Assembly Speech Data Research — Centered on the Work of Haruka Watanabe, Yasutomo Kimura, and Kenjiro Higashi

A map of prior research on local assembly minutes analysis, corpus studies, and citizen-participation platforms that machikarte builds upon. It traces the full chain of data acquisition, structural extraction, and citizen feedback through three lineages of accumulated research.