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Politics of Japan

日本の政治 (Japanese)
Government Seal of Japan
Polity typeUnitary[1] parliamentary
constitutional monarchy[2]
ConstitutionConstitution of Japan
Legislative branch
NameNational Diet
TypeBicameral
Meeting placeNational Diet Building
Upper house
NameHouse of Councillors
Presiding officerHidehisa Otsuji, President of the House of Councillors
Lower house
NameHouse of Representatives
Presiding officerFukushiro Nukaga, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Executive branch
Head of State
TitleEmperor
CurrentlyNaruhito
AppointerHereditary
Head of Government
TitlePrime Minister
CurrentlyFumio Kishida
AppointerEmperor (Nominated by National Diet)
Cabinet
NameCabinet of Japan
Current cabinetSecond Kishida Cabinet (Second Reshuffle)
LeaderPrime Minister
AppointerPrime Minister
HeadquartersNaikaku Sōri Daijin Kantei
Judicial branch
NameJudiciary
Supreme Court
Chief judgeSaburo Tokura
SeatSupreme Court Building
The National Diet Building in Tokyo

Politics of Japan are conducted in a framework of a dominant-party bicameral parliamentary constitutional monarchy, in which the Emperor is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government and the head of the Cabinet, which directs the executive branch.

Legislative power is vested in the National Diet, which consists of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. The House of Representatives has eighteen standing committees ranging in size from 20 to 50 members and The House of Councillors has sixteen ranging from 10 to 45 members.[3]

Judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court and lower courts, and sovereignty is vested in the people of Japan by the 1947 Constitution, which was written during the Occupation of Japan primarily by American officials and had replaced the previous Meiji Constitution. Japan is considered a constitutional monarchy with a system of civil law.

Politics in Japan in the post-war period has largely been dominated by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955, a phenomenon known as the 1955 System. Of the 31 prime ministers since the end of the country's occupation, 24 as well as the longest serving ones have been members of the LDP.[4] Consequently, Japan has been described as a de facto one-party state.[5] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices, Japan was the 23rd most electoral democratic country in the world as of 2023.[6]

  1. ^ Heslop, D. Alan. "Political system - National political systems". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Japan – The World Factbook". Cia.gov. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. ^ Philip Laundy - Parliaments in the Modern World page 109
  4. ^ 升味準之輔; Masumi, Junnosuke (1985). Gendai seiji : 1955-nen igo (Shohan ed.). Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai. ISBN 978-4130330268. OCLC 15423787.
  5. ^ "Japan as a One-Party State: The Future for Koizumi and Beyond". www.wilsoncenter.org. Wilson Center. Archived from the original on 15 February 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  6. ^ V-Dem Institute (2023). "The V-Dem Dataset". Retrieved 14 October 2023.

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