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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.
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.