JAPAN

The government, Economic Systems and Brief Historical Background

Heny Dwi Astutik

Imperial seal

Government seal

Japan

• The spirit of “Bushido” especially encouraged me and the students.

• Rise from atomic bomb attack and natural disaster.

• Rapid industrialization of the country rise to undreamed of prosperity and economic power.

Form of the Government Japanese is an constitutional monarchy

government. They have an emperor as a head of state but has

no powers. The emperor only do the ceremonial duties and appointed an prime minister that designated by the parliament.

Prime minister whom run and control government with his/her cabinet. Like other constitutional state, Japanese have three division of power (the executive, the legislative, and the judicial)

Economic Systems

• Free market/Liberalism/Laissez Faire adoption from England and USA capitalism model.

• Industrial sector in Japan: banking, insurance, transportation, telecommunication, & construction.

• Manufacturing focuses: high tech & precision goods (optical instruments, hybrid vehicles, & robotics)

Historical Background

• The religious practices of these early Japanese were later given name Shinto “the way of the God”.

• Below the emperor, the Japanese borrowed the Chinese organs of a centralized state.

• The Chinese law codes were taken over almost verbatim.

• At the capital, an elaborate bureaucratic form of government was created, thought with innovations on the Chinese model to fit it better to Japanese conditions.