JAPANESE POLITICAL SYSTEM

By Suzanne Tatikian

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Political Systems

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In the Japanese political system the Diet enacts laws, but most laws are drafted by career officials in the executive branch. Each cabinet minister (almost invariably a Diet member) is the legal head of his ministry, but he usually has little specialized knowledge and serves for only a year or two. He is in many ways dependent on the expertise of the ministry's career civil service led by the administrative vice-minister. The minister is therefore often less a seader than a spokesman for his mmministry as a whole. On the other hand, when one party has a majority in the Diet, party officials actually have a major voice in each ministry's policymaking.

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