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The Three Branches Of Japan's Constitution

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Japan's Constitution, which came into effect in 1947, is based on these three principles: sovereignty of the people, respect for fundamental human rights, and renunciation of war. The Constitution also guarantees the independence of the three branches of government - legislative (the Diet), executive (the cabinet), and judicial (the courts). Japan has a parliamentary system of government similar to Britain or Canada and a constitutional monarchy headed by the emperor. Like the United States government, the government of Japan has three branches: executive, judicial and legislative. In Japan the parliament is called the Diet and it consists of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. The members of the diet are elected by the people of the Japan. The cabinet or executive branch, is lead by the ministers which are picked by the prime minister, usually being members …show more content…

The Japanese do not elect a president directly but diet members (or legislatures) select a prime minister from amongst themselves. The highest court in the Japanese government is the Supreme Court. Other courts are district courts, high courts, family courts, and summary courts. Judges are delegated by the cabinet officials. The politics of Japan is engineered in a framework of a multi-party bicameral parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy which means the Emperor acts as a symbol or ceremonial head of state, and the Prime Minister is the head of government and the head of the Cabinet, which operates the executive branch. It is a unitary state, consisting of forty-seven administrative divisions.
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