Moore, Ray A.
Professor of Asian History, Amherst College
Robinson, Donald L.
Charles N. Clark Professor of Government, Smith College
Print publication date: 2002 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515116-9
doi:10.1093/019515116X.003.0017
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515116-9
doi:10.1093/019515116X.003.0017
15 “Complex and Labyrinthine”: The Structure of Government
In mid-July, the revision committee turned its attention to the draft's language on the structure of government in Japan's new parliamentary system: the make-up and powers of the Diet, the “highest organ of state power” (including the House of Representatives and House of Councillors), the executive (cabinet) and the judiciary; and explicit restrictions on the exercise of governmental power by the emperor. Ch. 15 traces the brilliant performance of Kanamori as interpreter and expositor of constitutional language.
Keywords: highest organ of state power Kanamori Tokujirō, House of Councilors, House of Representatives, parliamentary system, the cabinet, the Diet, the judiciary
Keywords: highest organ of state power Kanamori Tokujirō, House of Councilors, House of Representatives, parliamentary system, the cabinet, the Diet, the judiciary
doi:10.1093/019515116X.003.0017
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