ichini

ichini (イチニ株式会社) is a Japanese company whose stated mission is to "move forward the people who make Japan better." According to its corporate website, it builds platforms related to elections and politics, aiming to connect Japan in a better direction. Its logic is that if voter political awareness rises and people vote, good politicians will be elected; if good politicians do their work, society will improve. To that end, the company operates media that makes politics interesting and easier to understand in order to raise voter turnout, provides a place where every candidate can equally disseminate information, acts as a bridge for voters to support politicians, and opens an archive of knowledge for refining policy. The company emphasizes valuing the opinions of people in various positions equally and never leaving behind those who "don't understand." It uses ICT to connect all people, organizations, and information involved in elections and politics. Its known offerings include 選挙ドットコム (Senkyo Dot Com), an election-focused media platform, and ボネクタ (Bonecta), a network election countermeasure tool for politicians that connects politicians and voters. The website also publishes press releases, notices, media coverage, recruitment, maintenance, and update information. ichini is based in Japan and operates in the Japanese market. Its content and services are in Japanese. The company appears to be privately held; no parent company, owner, or listed status is indicated in the available evidence. Its activities include election coverage such as the Okinawa gubernatorial election, live streamed vote counts, candidate interviews, policy explanations, and public debates. It also produces YouTube content featuring local leaders. The company has publicly disclosed operational issues such as email mis-sends, system maintenance, system failures, and impersonation emails, indicating active management of its platforms.

ichini (イチニ株式会社) is a Japanese company that operates platforms related to elections and politics. Its corporate website states the mission "move forward the people who make Japan better" and describes a theory of change: raising voter political awareness leads to voting, which leads to the election of good politicians, whose work improves society. To pursue this, the company operates media that makes politics interesting and easier to understand in order to raise voter turnout, provides a place where every candidate can equally disseminate information, acts as a bridge for voters to support politicians, and opens an archive of knowledge for refining policy. The company emphasizes valuing the opinions of people in various positions equally and not leaving behind those who "don't understand." It uses ICT to connect all people, organizations, and information involved in elections and politics. Its known services include 選挙ドットコム (Senkyo Dot Com), an election media platform, and ボネクタ (Bonecta), a network election countermeasure tool for politicians that connects politicians and voters. From the news and notices published on its website, ichini is active in Japanese election coverage. In 2026 it covered the Okinawa gubernatorial election with candidate interviews, policy explanations, a public debate for candidates, and a live streamed vote count. It also produces a YouTube show, "首長と○○やってみた," featuring local government heads. The company publishes press releases, media coverage, recruitment, maintenance, and update information. It has also disclosed operational issues, including an erroneous email transmission that leaked email addresses, system maintenance, a system failure, and spoofed emails impersonating its representative director. These disclosures indicate ongoing operation and management of its platforms. No founding date, founder, headquarters address, parent company, or listed status is provided in the available evidence.

• Notice of functional issues in some users' ボネクタ management screens regarding minutes search and PDF display.

• Publication of supplier composition report and system maintenance notice.

• Apology and report regarding a system failure.

• Warning about spoofed emails impersonating the representative director.

• System maintenance notice (ended).

• 選挙ドットコム begins publishing candidate interviews and policy explanations for the Okinawa gubernatorial election.

• 選挙ドットコム-hosted Okinawa gubernatorial election candidate public debate featured in newspapers.

• Announcement of email address leakage due to erroneous email transmission; 選挙ドットコム announces live stream of Okinawa gubernatorial election vote count.

• YouTube show "首長と○○やってみた" features Tobetsu Town Mayor Masahiro Goto.

• Release of September 2026 phone and internet awareness survey on party support rates before cabinet reshuffle.

• Release of latest usage trends for ボネクタ as of end of August 2026.

A platform company that uses ICT to connect people, organizations, and information around elections and politics, aiming to raise voter turnout and improve Japan.

• 選挙ドットコム (Senkyo Dot Com)

  An election-focused media platform that makes politics interesting and easier to understand, provides candidate information, interviews, policy explanations, public debates, and live election coverage.

• ボネクタ (Bonecta)

  A network election countermeasure tool for politicians that connects politicians and voters, with a management screen including minutes search and PDF display.

1. 1イチニ株式会社のコーポレートサイト。日本をよくする人を前へ。 -ichi-ni.jp
2. 2ichini - Wikidatawikidata.org