2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Studies in the translation of the Local Government Act in the Meiji era
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12610337
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese history
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| Research Institution | Saga University |
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Principal Investigator |
IIZUKA Kazuyuki Saga University, Faculty of Culture and Education, Assistant Professor, 文化教育学部, 助教授 (50259892)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2001
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| Keywords | a law of Pretecture / the pretecture / assembly / the prefectural council / the standing comittee / a pretectural governor / the Home Ministry |
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| Research Abstract |
This study makes re-investigation the process and meaning of the prefectural and county reform in 1899. As a results, its makes clear following matters.
1. The functions and rolls of the prefectural assembly, and the standing committee, were growing up in the eighteen-eighties, against the democratic rights. Some of them had been grown above the regulation of the laws, and they had been maintained as customs, after the establishment of the prefectures and districts.
2. During the second Ito cabinet, the Home (naimusho ※※※) drafted a controlling the prefectural assembly, the prefectural council, the standing committee. But it could not realize.
3. During the second Yamagata cabinet, the Home Ministry should like to break the customs, and due to make the restriction of the functions of the prefectural assembly and council in the law, turning over the prefectual and county reform.
4. Turning over the prefectural and county reform in 1899, the prefectural governor organized a conference, and devised the standardization of local administration.
A prefectural council in a law of Prefecture (hukensei ※※※) were understood as an executive organ. But by prefectural reform, it had been interpreted as a legislative organ.
Under the administrative readjustment during the first Katsura cabinet, the Department of Finance (okurasho ※※※) framed the reforming plan of the local government, and completed a definite plan in 1904.
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