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参議院
The upper of the Diet's two chambers (Article 42). Its members serve six years, half of them elected every three years, and it is never dissolved (Article 46) — so it always has si…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 42, 46, 54 and Wikipedia: House of Councillors (Japan) as a reference.
国会
Japan's parliament, and under Article 41 the only body that can make an Act (法律). It has two chambers, the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, both made up of el…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 41, 42, 43 and Wikipedia: National Diet as a reference.
衆議院
The lower of the Diet's two chambers (Article 42). Its members serve four years, and the term ends early whenever the House is dissolved (Article 45) — which is the difference that…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 42, 45, 59, 60, 61, 67 and Wikipedia: House of Representatives (Japan) as a reference.
The head of the body to which a person travelling abroad from Japan on an official passport (公用旅券) belongs (for an accompanying or later-joining spouse, child or employee, the body of the person they go with): the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the House of Councillors, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the President of the Board of Audit, the Prime Minister or a Minister, or the Minister for Foreign Affairs where that person belongs to none of those bodies.
…る配偶者、子又は使用人である場合には、その者を同伴し、又は呼び寄せる者）が所属する各省各庁（衆議院、参議院、裁判所、会計検査院並びに内閣（内閣府及びデジタル庁を除く。）、内閣府、デジタル庁及び各省をいう。以…
The House of Representatives, the House of Councillors, the courts, the Board of Audit, the Cabinet (other than the Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency and the Reconstruction Agency), the Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency, the Reconstruction Agency and each ministry: the list of Article 21 of the Public Finance Act, which until the Reconstruction Agency is abolished is read with that Agency added (Act for Establishment of the Reconstruction Agency, Supplementary Provisions, Article 3(1)).
財政法（昭和二十二年法律第三十四号）第二十一条に規定する各省各庁
候補者等
In Article 4, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), a candidate for public office, or a political party or other political organization that, under the Public Offices Election Act, has notified the returning officer of its candidates for a single-seat constituency of the House of Representatives (Article 86, paragraph (1) or (8)), or has filed a list of its candidates for the proportional representation seats of the House of Representatives (Article 86-2, paragraph (1)) or of the House of Councillors (Article 86-3, paragraph (1)).
…名簿届出政党等（同法第八十六条の二第一項の規定による届出をした政党その他の政治団体をいう。）若しくは参議院名簿届出政党等（同法第八十六条の三第一項の規定による届出をした政党その他の政治団体をいう。）
The House of Representatives, the House of Councillors, the courts, the Board of Audit, the Cabinet (other than the Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency and the Reconstruction Agency), the Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency, the Reconstruction Agency and each ministry, with the Disaster Management Agency (防災庁) added to both lists from the day the change Act No. 62 of 2026 makes to this Act comes into effect: the list this Act gives, which until the Reconstruction Agency is abolished is read with that Agency added (Act for Establishment of the Reconstruction Agency, supplementary provisions (附則), Article 3, paragraph (1)).
衆議院、参議院、裁判所、会計検査院並びに内閣（内閣府及びデジタル庁を除く。）、内閣府、デジタル庁及び各省
In Article 41-18, paragraph (1), item (iv), the office of member of the House of Representatives or the House of Councillors, member of a prefectural assembly, prefectural governor, or member of the assembly or mayor of a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act.
各議院審査等
In Article 19, item (xv) and Article 36, an examination or investigation by either House of the Diet (国会), a House committee or the House of Councillors' research committee under Article 104(1) of the Diet Act or Article 1 of the Act on Witnesses' Oath, Testimony, etc. Before Both Houses of the Diet; court proceedings and the enforcement of judgments; criminal investigations; investigations of tax-law violation cases (犯則事件); and audits by the Board of Audit (会計検査院).
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 10 of 2013, which amended the Public Offices Election Act, the earlier of two days: the day public notice is given of the date of the first general election of members of the House of Representatives announced on or after the day that Act comes into effect, and the day public notice is given of the date of the first ordinary election of members of the House of Councillors so announced.