Zenkoku Chijikai

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The Zenkoku Chijikai ( Japanese 全国知事 会 , German "National Governors 'Association "; English National Governors' Association , NGA for short) is an organization founded in 1947 for the elected governors of today's 47 Japanese prefectures .

Organization and history

The governors' conference serves to exchange information between the prefectures and functions in addition to the "national conference of mayors [of independent cities and special districts]" ( Zenkoku Shichōkai ), the "national conference of [district] towns and villages" ( Zenkoku Chōsonkai ) and the national conferences of Prefecture and local parliament presidents ( Zenkoku Todōfuken-gikai-gichōkai , Zenkoku Shi-gikai-gichōkai and Zenkoku Chōson-gikai-gichōkai ) as mediators between the local authorities and the central government in Tokyo .

The Zenkoku Chijikai was founded on October 1, 1947 as the successor to the Chihōkan Kaigi ( 地方官 会議 , dt. About "Regional Conference of Officials "), which gathered the civil servants, appointed by the Ministry of the Interior , of the prefectures' governors. In April 1947 the first unified regional elections had taken place, in which the governors of the 46 prefectures were elected by the people for the first time. The original name of the organization was until 1950 Zenkoku chihō-jichitai-kyōgikai rengō ( 全国 地方自治 協議 会 連 合 d, German for "National Association of Regional Conferences of Local Authorities") and was created as an association of regional blocks that had come together to form regional conferences .

The board of directors of Zenkoku Chijikai consists of a president ( kaichō ), a maximum of seven regionally distributed vice-presidents, seven other board members ( riji ) and three auditors ( kanji ) for a term of two years . A candidacy for president must be supported by five governors beforehand. In addition, there are (as of September 2019) six permanent ( sōmu , "general affairs", chihōzei-zaisei , "local taxes and finances", shakai hoshō , "social security", bunkyō kankyō , "culture & environment", nōrin shōkō , " Agriculture, Trade and Industry ”and kokudo kōtsū ,“ Land & Transport ”) and six special committees as well as eight project teams in which the governors discuss individual policy areas. The actual national governors' conference , i.e. the general assembly of all governors, zenkoku chiji-kaigi , meets about once a year and decides, among other things, on statements to the central government, i.e. the cabinet or parliament, and instructs the "conference of president and vice-president" ( 正副 会長 会議 , seifuku-kaichō-kaigi ) with other matters.

NGA Presidents (chronological)

Status: September 2019

Regional Governors' Conferences

Today most of the prefectures belong to one or more regional governors' conferences ( chihō chijikai ), in which they cooperate in individual areas of administration. Unlike the Kansai association created in 2010 , which is considered a possible model for the planned regions / states ( dō-shū , sometimes referred to as "superstates" ) to replace the prefectures, the regional governors' conferences are not, however, entities in the "Law on local self-government" ( chihō-jichi-hō ) enshrined. The regional conferences are in detail:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Organization : Board of Directors and Committees September 3, 2019 (pdf) , accessed October 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ 歴 代 会長 rekidai kaichō , accessed October 28, 2019.
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yasui is the family name, Seiichirō the first name.