 After the election, Hashimoto founded the "Ishin Seiji Juku", a "cram school" for training future political leaders, which admitted 2,000 students in its first class in March 2012.In 2012 a poll of civil servants working in Ōsaka city was conducted, requiring disclosure of those with tattoos on their body.The survey found 110 employees out of 33,500 had at least one tattoo.