Japan

Prime Minister of Japan and his Cabinet includes:

• what's new
• the Constitution
• Constitution and government of Japan, overview
• speeches and statements by Prime Minister,
• announcements of the Chief Cabinet Secretary
• Cabinet of Japan, includes lists of Ministers and biographical information
• previous Cabinets (since 1996)
• major policy reports
• government organization chart, relationship of the three tiers of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches

e-Gov
Government publications and links to Ministry home pages. There is a search engine in English but site is not replicated in English so navigation is limited.

Parliament

Diet & Parliaments
National Diet Library site, includes a full text (Japanese language only) database of the Diet session proceedings since the 1st session (May, 1947)

Japanese Prefectures
Japanese and English

Finding Japanese government publications

Japanese government publications can be found in the library catalogue under title, author or subject.

Government Publications
Japanese language, no English version

Library holdings

White papers of Japan, (1970/71-1994/95), Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo.

Statistics (including Census and Yearbooks)

Statistics Bureau
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications site. Japanese and English language.

Portal Site of Official Statistics of Japan
Japanese and English language

Other sources

Yahoo > Directory > Regional > Countries > Japan > Government
Links to government agencies, embassies and consulates, executive branch, government officials, judicial branch, law, legislative branch, military, ministries.

Japanes Studies library contact is Ayako Hatta

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