According to the use of both broadband and mobile IP networks, rapid structural changes have been proceeding in the information-communications field, which has reached a major turning point. The Telecommunications Bureau works to further disseminate and deploy telecommunications infrastructure and promote the development of a secure and reliable environment for using information-communications infrastructure, as well as the efficient use of radio waves and establishment of a globally-advanced wireless broadband environment to handle such changes.
Statistics are basic materials indispensable to socioeconomic affairs and civic life, which serve as a "compass," helping the administration to plan and draft administrative measures and citizens to make appropriate decisions.
As socioeconomic conditions change and statistics become increasingly important, the Statistics Bureau and the Director-General for Policy Planning Statistical Standards arrange and provide statistics to meet needs. The statistical system of the Japanese government is decentralized, in that each ministry produces statistics for its own policy purposes.
The Cabinet Law divided the executive power among cabinet ministers, allowing the sectionalism that developed among different ministries. As a result, a bureaucratic supremacy developed in the policymaking process. The long-time governing party, the Liberal Democratic Party LDP , also developed a decentralized, bottom-up policymaking structure.
As a result, the prime minister had difficulty exercising strong leadership in government decision-making. This situation changed after the electoral reform, which encouraged Diet members to become policy generalists and weakened the influence of the LDP policy subcommittees. Benefiting from these institutional changes, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi introduced a top-down policymaking process.
The Democratic Party of Japan DPJ governments in — tried to further strengthen political leadership in policymaking. However, instead of political leadership, they created a weak bureaucracy with lowered moral. Keywords: Japan , politics , bureaucracy , public policy , politicians , leadership , policymaking. Briefing pdf. Publication type Briefing Policy area Foreign Affairs. Sign up for email updates Facebook Twitter Parliament on Facebook.
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