Abstract
A gender gap of voting behaviour in Japan would be caused by the education and expected role for women different from these for men. A gender gap of the education and expected role would lead to a situation that women's political literacy would be limited to an artificial one which is the least ability necessary to vote, and women might cast their votes depending on the other's intelligence. A reduction of this gap is observed in the recent study of Japanese voters. Hypothetically the reduction might be a result of the changing of the education and expected role for women and be created by their own effort in order to improve their social status.
