CHRONOLOGY
1994 |
Lower House reform adopts Bundestag features of single seat constituencies plus party list multi seat constituencies |
1993 |
LDP loses Lower House majority and the unwieldy 8 party Hosokawa Coalition Cabinet launched but quickly fails |
GLOSSARY
giin hosei kyoku |
Upper and Lower House Legislation Bureaux |
for the drafting of Private Members' Bills and their amending of Cabinet Bills |
PM |
Prime Minister |
the PM voted by the Lower House nominates a cabinet cf giin naikakusei |
Westminster Democracy (i) |
representative government giin naikakusei |
Lower House confidence in the PM checks executive cf partial fusion of powers |