A collaboration between the Japanese government and the popular manga series Tokyo Revengers communicates the meaning of a new law on adulthood for 18 and 19 year-olds.

There are notable changes happening in the year 2022. After two years of closures, recently the government has opened the borders again, allowing a capped amount of international students to enter Japan.

Furthermore, effective from April 1, The Plastic Resource Circulation Act has come into force. It’s aimed at our future, curbing plastic waste by reducing the use of petroleum-based plastics and promoting recycling.

These will be influential in Japan’s society. But there is another significant policy change that will have an even greater impact on current and future generations of Japanese.

Beginning April 1, 2022, Japan has lowered the legal age of adulthood to 18 years old, down from 20. Some 2 million people who are 18 and 19 years old came of age in Japan on that day.

Now a collaboration between the Japanese government and Kodansha’s popular manga series, Tokyo Revengers authored by Ken Wakui, aims to communicate the meaning of this pivotal decision.

Now a collaboration between the Japanese government and Kodansha’s popular manga series, Tokyo Revengers authored by Ken Wakui, aims to communicate the meaning of this pivotal decision.

Tokyo Revengers manga, which has sold over 50 million copies since it was first published in March 2017, covers various themes – youth, school life, love, friendship, time, regret – just to name a few. The series’ storyline starts when the key protagonist, Takemichi Hanagaki, hears news of the death of his middle school girlfriend, Hina, in a gang-related incident. In a sequence of coincidental events, he accidentally travels back to the past. Takemichi is determined to uncover and correct mistakes in the past that could hopefully save his girlfriend from meeting her death in the present/future.