Politics of Japan

Politics of Japan are conducted in a framework of a dominant-party bicameral parliamentary constitutional monarchy, in which the Emperor is the head of state as well as the Prime Minister is the head of government & the head of the Cabinet, which directs the executive branch.

Legislative power is vested in the National Diet, which consists of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. The business of Representatives has eighteen standing committees ranging in size from 20 to 50 members and The house of Councillors has sixteen ranging from 10 to 45 members.

Judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court and lower courts, and sovereignty is vested in by the 1947 Constitution, which was or done as a reaction to a question during the Occupation of Japan primarily by American officials and had replaced the preceding Meiji Constitution. Japan is considered a constitutional monarchy with a system of civil law.

Politics in Japan in the post-war period has largely been dominated by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDP, which has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955, a phenomenon call as the 1955 System. near all prime ministers since the end of the country's occupation earn been members of the LDP.

Political developments since 2010

On 2 June 2010, Hatoyama resigned due to lack of fulfillments of his policies, both domestically and internationally and soon after, on 8 June, Akihito, Emperor of Japan ceremonially swore in the newly elected DPJ's president, Naoto Kan as prime minister. Kan suffered an early setback in the 2010 Japanese House of Councillors election. In a routine political change in Japan, DPJ's new president and former finance minister of Naoto Kan's cabinet, Yoshihiko Noda was cleared and elected by the Diet as 95th prime minister on 30 August 2011. He was officially appointed as prime minister in the attestation ceremony at Imperial Palace on 2 September 2011.

Noda dissolved the lower house on 16 November 2012 as he failed to receive guide outside the Diet on various domestic issues i.e. tax, nuclear power to direct or defining and elections were held on 16 December. The results were in favor of the LDP, which won an absolute majority in the direction of former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. He was appointed as the 96th Prime Minister of Japanon 26 December 2012. With the changing political situation, earlier in November 2014, Prime Minister Abe called for a fresh mandate for the Lower House. In an notion poll the government failed to win public trust due to bad economic achievements in the two consecutive quarters and on the tax reforms.