National Diet (Japan)
In the Japanese political system, the Diet is the bicameral Parliament from the Meiji Restoration to the present time, although significantly modified by the 1947 Constitution; limited role in decisionmaking for World War Two in the Pacific, espcecially as Japanese party government declined.
The Japanese word for it is Kokkai; the word Diet is of Latin derivation, but came to be used in relation to Japan because it was commonly used for a legislative body in mediaeval Germany. Imperial Germany was the most influential model for the process of modernization undertaken in Japan during the Meiji period. [1]
While it was formed to resemble the British Westminster system, with significant influences from the Prussian Parliament, the Diet, even today, has relatively less power than Parliaments of other democracies, although has become more powerful in recent years
Under the Meiji Constitution
1947 Constitution
Multiparty governance
National Diet Library
Like the the Library of Congress in the United States, the National Diet Library is the national library.
References
- ↑ National Diet -- Japan's Parliament, Japan 101