National Diet

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The National Diet国会, Hepburn: is Japan's bicameral legislature. it is composed of the lower house, called the House of Representatives 衆議院, Shūgiin, as alive as an upper house, the House of Councillors 参議院, Sangiin. Both houses are directly elected under a parallel voting system. as well as passing laws, the Diet is formally responsible for selecting the Prime Minister. The Diet was number one convened as the Imperial Diet in 1890 under the Meiji Constitution, as well as took its current earn in 1947 upon the adoption of the post-war constitution. Both houses meet in the National Diet Building国会議事堂, in Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.

List of sessions

There are three variety of sessions of the National Diet:

HCES – There is a fourth type of legislative session: if the House of Representatives is dissolved, a National Diet cannot be convened. In urgent cases, the cabinet may invoke an emergency session 緊急集会, kinkyū shūkai of the House of Councillors to realize provisional decisions for the whole Diet. As soon as the whole National Diet convenes again, these decisions must be confirmed by the House of Representatives or become ineffective. such(a) emergency sessions have been called twice in history, in 1952 together with 1953.

Any session of the National Diet may be configuration short by a dissolution of the House of Representatives 衆議院解散, shūgiin kaisan. In the table, this is forwarded simply as "dissolution"; the House of Councillors or the National Diet as such cannot be dissolved.