The Relation Between Politics and Administration under the Parliamentary Government in Japan

本研究旨在厘清政治与行政的相互关系。去年，我们主要收集和整理了1993年权力更迭引起的决策过程的转变的材料。今年，我们从三个方面着手开展我们的项目。1收集有关执政联盟决策过程的最新材料，并对其进行组织。因此，我们明确了几个执政党之间的沟通和调整机构(如核心小组、代表会议、执政联盟最高级别会议)的运作方式、职能和性质。2重新审议关于预算编制过程和自民党政府决策过程的材料，并与有关政党举行一些听证会。因此，我们明确了这些过程，澄清了日本官僚机构和政党所扮演的角色，以及它们之间的相互关系。基于这两个结果，我们比较了自民党政府、非自民党联合政府(细川方明内阁)和自民党-社民党联合政府(村山内阁)的决策过程。3考虑日本宪法与日本议会制的关系，以及日本建立中央集权官僚和东京中央集权的过程及其对当前政治的影响，以掌握日本议会制的历史和制度特征。我们将继续这一项目，重点关注如何在日本建立议会制政府及其过渡。

The purpose of this research project is to clarify the mutual relation between politics and administration. Last year, we had mainly gathered and organized materials concerning the transition of the process of policy decision caused by the change of power in 1993. This year, we have approached our project in three aspects.1 Gathering the current materials on the process of policy decision by the governing coalition, and organizing them. As the result, we specified the way of operation, the function and the character of several organs for communication and abjustment between the governing parties (e.g.the Caucus, Representatives Meeting, Top-level Conference of the governing coalition) .2 Re-consideration of the materials on the process of compilation of the budget and that of policy decision under the LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) government with holding some hearings with the party concernd. As the result, we made those processes clear and clarified the roles playd by the Japanese bureaucracy and the political parties, and the mutual relation between them. Based on these two results, we compared the processes of policy decision under the LDP government, non-LDP coalition (Hosokawa, Hata Cabinet) , and LDP-SPDJ coalition (Murayama Cabinet) .3 Consideration on the relation between the Constitution of Japan and the parliamentary system of government in Japan, and on the process of establishing the centralized bureaucraacy and centralization to Tokyo, and its influence on the present politics, in order to grasp the historical and institutional characteristics of the parliamentary system of government in Japan.We will continue this project, focusing on how to establish the parliamentary system of government in Japan and its transition.