{"id":88002,"date":"2026-04-28T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=88002"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:50:12","slug":"presidential-candidate-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/88002","title":{"rendered":"Waseda University Presidential Candidate Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>2026 Waseda University Presidential Candidate Election<\/h1>\n<p>Waseda University will hold an election to select a candidate for the next University President, following the expiration of the last term of our current President Aiji Tanaka (September 20, 2026). The election results will be announced on the University&#8217;s website around June 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that this election is merely a procedure for selecting a &#8220;candidate&#8221; for the next president, and the election results do not determine who will become the next president. The next president will be selected at the Board of Trustees meeting scheduled for September 21st.<\/p>\n<h2>Procedures for Selecting the Next University President<\/h2>\n<p>In accordance with the amendment of the Private School Act on April 1, 2025, the University has changed its procedures for selecting the president from the previous &#8220;Presidential Election&#8221; system to a system in which a &#8220;Presidential Candidate&#8221; is selected through the &#8220;Presidential Candidate Election.&#8221; After the Presidential Candidate Election is held, the <span data-teams=\"true\">External Advisory Board<\/span>, which is the body that selects the University&#8217;s <span data-teams=\"true\">vice presidents<\/span>, will include the Presidential Candidate selected in the Presidential Candidate Election as a v<span data-teams=\"true\">ice president<\/span> candidate in the selection process for vice presidents. The vice presidents selected by the <span data-teams=\"true\">External Advisory Board<\/span> will convene as the Board of Trustees on September 21, 2026, and will select the president from among themselves, taking into full consideration the results of the Presidential Candidate Election.<\/p>\n<h2>Schedule for the Selection of the Next President (Tentative)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026schedule.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026schedule.png 862w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026schedule-610x257.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026schedule-768x323.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Waseda University Presidential Candidate Election Waseda University will hold an election to select a can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[384],"class_list":["post-88002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-presidential-candidate-election"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88022,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88002\/revisions\/88022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}