Parliamentry Documents and Official Publications Room related sites

Links to web pages of the National Diet of Japan, Official Gazettes, laws and regulations, court reports and government organizations.
(Links last checked: 28/09/2009)

• Shugiin (House of Representatives)(in Japanese) 
• House of Representatives (in English)
• Sangiin (House of Councillors) (in Japanese)
• House of Councillors (in English)
• Sangiin Hoseikyoku (Legislative Bureau of House of Councillors) (in Japanese)
• Legislative Bureau of House of Councillors (in English)

Official Gazettes

The "Kanpo" of the past one month (Printing Bureau of Ministry of Finance)

http://kanpou.npb.go.jp/ (in Japanese)

Contents information (Office of the Cabinet Public Relations)

http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/kanpo/index.html (in Japanese)

Contents search (Government Publications Center)

http://www.gov-book.or.jp/asp/Kanpo/KanpoList/ (in Japanese)

GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT database system (JETRO)

http://www.jetro.go.jp/cgi-bin/gov/govj0101.cgi(in English)

Official Gazette Information Series (The website"Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet")

http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/kanpo-shiryo/index.html (in Japanese)

Laws and regulations

Current laws and regulations (Administrative Management Bureau of Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications)

http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxsearch.cgi(in Japanese)

Laws legislated by National Diet (House of Representatives: Statutes legislated since the 1st National Diet session)

http://www.shugiin.go.jp/index.nsf/html/index_housei.htm (in Japanese)

Comprehensive collection ("Hoko"; partly requiring payment, registration required)

http://www.houko.com/ (in Japanese)

Abolished laws and regulations/ Laws and regulations in Japan's former colonial territories, etc. ("The Nakano Library")

http://www.geocities.jp/nakanolib/mokuji.htm (in Japanese)

Law reports

Recent major Supreme Court decisions, major decisions of lower courts (local courts), labor law cases, Intellectual Property Rights cases (Supreme Court)

http://www.courts.go.jp/saisinhanrei.html((in Japanese)

The government agencies Web Server (to Japanese pages)

A link to the government agencies in the website of the Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet (white papers, council documents, statistics, cabinet decisions, etc.).

* Click here to go to the home page of the Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet.

Links to Ministries and Other Organizations (to English pages)

These are links in the website of the Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet, including links to the English versions of the websites of ministries and other organizations.

Government Publications website (in Japanese)

You can search for and order government publications.

Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications: Portal site of electronic government

You can search for administrative information (in Japanese) and the contents of the websites of ministries and other organizations (in Japanese and English).

Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Diplomatic Record Office (in Japanese)

Documents concerning Japanese foreign policy are available.

The Diplomatic Record Office (in English)

The National Archives of Japan (in Japanese)

This organization receives and stores official documents issued by national administrative agencies. Currently, the documents are made public after 30 years, in principle. A catalog database is available for search.

The National Archives of Japan (in English)

Reading Room in the Library of the National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan Defense Agency (in Japanese)

Official documents of the former Army and Navy are available.

The National Institute for Defense Studies (in English)