Rules for Councilor Election
| (Number of Council board members) | ||
| Section 1 | The Council shall consist of 17 Council board members, of whom 15 are Councilors, and 2 are Councilors affiliated with a company. Councilors affiliated with a company shall be selected from regular members who work for companies. | |
| (Terms of office of Council board members) | ||
| Section 2 | Councilors shall serve terms of three years; Councilors affiliated with a company shall serve terms of one year. | |
| (Commencement of Selection Process) | ||
| Section 3 | When a Council board member’s term of office concludes, the selection process for a new Council board member shall commence. | |
| (Selection Procedures) | ||
| Section 4 | For Councilors, a Councilor shall be elected from regular members by ballots of regular and honorary members, and shall replace the Councilor whose term of office has concluded. For Councilors affiliated with a company, the Council shall nominate two candidates from regular members who work for companies; the Councilor affiliated with a company shall be elected via expressions of approval by regular and honorary members, and shall replace the Councilor affiliated with a company whose term of office has concluded. | |
| Section 5 | 1 | Four months prior to the conclusion of the outgoing Council board members’ terms of office, the Council shall nominate 10 Councilor candidates and two Councilor affiliated with a company candidates and notify regular and honorary members of its nominations. The Councilor candidates shall include at least two female candidates. Full consideration shall be given to diversity in the field of research, age, and region of residence when considering nominations for Council board member candidates. |
| 2 | The Council shall notify regular and honorary members of Councilor candidates; during the election period, members shall vote for candidates they deem appropriate by marking said candidates’ names. If members deem persons appropriate who have not been nominated by the Council, they can vote for said persons by writing said persons’ names on the ballot. However, members shall not vote for more than the allotted number of candidates. | |
| 3 | The Council shall notify regular and honorary members of Councilor affiliated with a company candidates; during the election period, members shall express approval for candidates they deem appropriate by marking said candidates’ names. Members may express approval for one or both candidates; they may also express approval for neither candidate by marking neither candidates’ names. | |
| 4 | Elections and expressions of approval shall take place via secret ballot. | |
| 5 | The Council shall manage the elections and expressions of approval, and the results shall be confirmed by two member representatives. | |
| 6 | The Council shall confirm the election of the five candidates with the most votes as the new Councilors. If the five candidates with the most votes do not include a female candidate, then the female candidate with the most votes shall take the place of the fifth-placed candidate. | |
| 7 | The Council shall confirm the election of any or all Councilor affiliated with a company candidates who receive expressions of approval from more than half of regular and honorary members as the new Councilors affiliated with a company. | |
| (Selection of Vice Presidents) | ||
| Section 6 | The Council shall select one Vice President from among the new Councilors elected according to Section 5, above. The term of office of the Vice President shall be the same as the term of office of the Councilors. | |
| (Filling vacancies) | ||
| Section 7 | The selection process for a new Council board member shall take place in the case of either of the following events: A Council board member requests to resign, and said request is accepted. A Council board member seat becomes vacant for any other reason. |
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| Section 8 | 1 | The selection process for a new Council board member according to Section 7, above, shall take place within two weeks of the day a Council board member’s resignation request is accepted, or within two weeks of the day a Council board member seat becomes vacant. |
| 2 | The Council shall select Council board member candidates from among regular members, taking the outgoing Council board member’s role within the Council into consideration; the Council shall then notify regular and honorary members of said candidates. | |
| 3 | The selection process for a new Council board member shall take place via expressions of approval by regular and honorary members. The procedure for expressions of approval shall follow the procedures for selecting Councilors affiliated with a company detailed in Sections 5-3 to Section 5-5, and 5-7, above. | |
| Section 9 | The term of office of the Council board member selected according to Section 7, above, shall be equivalent to the term of office left unfulfilled by the outgoing Council board member. | |
| Section 10 | The revisions to these rules shall be deliberated by the Council, and approved at the General Assembly of the JSCC. | |
Supplementary Provisions
| Section 1 | These rules become effective from October 1, 2002. September 25, 2003 Partial Amendment. September 22, 2005 Partial Amendment. September 22, 2012 Partial Amendment. September 11, 2016 Partial Amendment. September 28, 2022 Partial Amendment. |
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| (Transitional measures) | ||
| Section 2 | In FY2021 and FY2022, 10 Council board members (including two Vice Presidents) were selected with terms of office of two years; as a transitional measure, the terms of office of said 10 Council board members shall be extended to three years, and they shall henceforth be Councilors. The terms of office of said 10 Councilors shall be considered to have started on the date they were installed as Council board members. Five Councilor seats shall remain vacant until the FY2023 General Assembly of the JSCC. | |
| Section 3 | As of the FY2022 General Assembly of the JSCC, both Councilor affiliated with a company seats remain vacant. The Council shall act to fill these vacancies as soon as possible. | |
