Japan Studies: Government

You can browse White Papers, Policies, resources at the Economic and Social Research Institute.

You can browse Speeches and Statements by Prime Minister under 'The News'

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Introduction to the official duties and various public activities of Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, and other members of the Imperial Family, carried out both at the Imperial Palace and outside.

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Established as an intellectual property specialized high court to ensure more effective and speedy proceedings in intellectual property cases.

Federal body comprised of 52 local bar associations in Japan, individual attorneys, legal professional corporations, registered foreign lawyers and other members.

The public prosecutors offices consist of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office (in Tokyo), the High Public Prosecutors Offices (in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Sendai, Sapporo and Takamatsu), the District Public Prosecutors Offices (one each in the 46 prefectures except for Hokkaido, where because of the large size of its administrative area there are four offices) and Local Public Prosecutors Offices (one each in major cities,wards or towns).

Links to overview of the judicial system in Japan and cases including those from lower courts.

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- Japanese Economy and Public Finance (Print version)
- Nuclear energy (Print version)
- Children and Young People
- Gender Equality

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White Paper on Local Public Finance is located at the middle of the website.

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the link is located under Overview of Japanese Police.

- In Japanese
- All proceedings from the 1st session to the 92nd session (November 1890 to March 1947) are available. (Japanese only)

- In Japanese
- Provides information on each lawmaker's activities at Diet, such as the number of lawmaker-initiated legislation submission and attendance to committee meetings.

Integrated searching system to search information and documents of government agencies. Japanese Only.

Full-text database of the Diet session proceedings since the 1st session (May, 1947). (Japanese only)

Online magazine published once a month by the Japanese Government to help people around the world better understand Japan today.

Contains information on the promulgation dates (dates of announcement in the Official Gazette), dates of amendment, dates of abolition, etc. of the laws, orders and ordinances issued since 1886. It also contains information on the bills introduced to the Imperial Diet (1890 to 1947) and the Diet (1947 to present).

Contains information on the laws, orders and ordinances promulgated in the period between 1867 and 1886. (Japanese only)

Introduces Prime Minister's activities and the government's policies through video.

Supports and encourages local governments' practice to disseminate information.

Gives an outline of the holdings of the Parliamentary Documents and Official Publications Room, including parliamentary documents, official gazettes, statute books, publications of government offices of Japan and other countries and documents of international organizations. Links to the digital versions of these are also available. It is a part of “RESEARCH NAVI.”

Information about politicians for each prefecture.