Outline of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

Introduction

• Japanese local autonomy system and the Metropolitan Assembly
• Functions of the Metropolitan Assembly
  • History
  • Organization of the Assembly
    • Assembly members
    • President and Vice-President
    • Factions (political parties)
  • Rights of the Assembly
    • Rights to vote
    • Right to elect and right to consent
    • Right to request inspection/audit
    • Right to investigate
    • Right to submit opinion briefs
    • Non-confidence resolution against the Governor
  • Operation of the Assembly
    • Regular sessions and extraordinary sessions
    • Plenary session
    • Committees
    • Passage process of legislative bills
    • Basic Rules for session operation
• Assembly and executive organs
• Citizens and the Metropolitan Assembly
  • Right to elect Assembly members
  • Right of direct application
    • Right to apply for the formulation, amendment and abolishment of ordinances
    • Right to apply for the dissolution of the Metropolitan Assembly
    • Right to apply for the dismissal of the Metropolitan Assembly members
  • Public hearings
  • Supplication and petition
  • Observation of Assembly proceedings
  • Public relations
  • Information disclosure system
• Metropolitan Assembly and international exchange
  • Exchange with municipal assemblies of friendship cities
  • Overseas investigation
  • Visits of foreign officials to the Metropolitan Assembly
• Secretariat