10 Facts About Japanese Diet

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The Japanese Diet was first established as the Imperial Japanese Diet in 1890 under the Meiji Constitution, and took its current form in 1947 upon the adoption of the post-war constitution.

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The Japanese Diet's responsibilities include not only the making of laws but the approval of the annual national budget that the government submits and the ratification of treaties.

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Prime Minister must be designated by Japanese Diet resolution, establishing the principle of legislative supremacy over executive government agencies.

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The Japanese Diet has the power to impeach judges convicted of criminal or irregular conduct.

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Each house of the Japanese Diet determines its own standing orders and has responsibility for disciplining its own members.

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Kansai-kan of the National Japanese Diet LibraryIt is a facility in Keihanna Science City that acts as a storage space and the center for library services; for the advanced information communications society for library materials, information supply service, electronic library functions and enhanced documents.

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Japan's first modern legislature was the Imperial Japanese Diet established by the Meiji Constitution in force from 1889 to 1947.

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The Meiji Constitution was adopted on February 11,1889, and the Imperial Japanese Diet first met on November 29,1890, when the document entered into force.

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Imperial Japanese Diet consisted of a House of Representatives and a House of Peers.

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The Meiji Constitution was largely based on the form of constitutional monarchy found in nineteenth century Prussia and the new Japanese Diet was modeled partly on the German Reichstag and partly on the British Westminster system.

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