Local assembly materials

This webpage introduces how to search materials of the assemblies of local governments (local assemblies) via the internet.
Japanese local assemblies exist in each prefecture, municipality, and special ward based on Article 93 of the Constitution and Article 89 of the Local Autonomy Act. The total number of prefectures, municipalities (i.e. city, town and village), and special wards amounts to 1,788 as of July 2023 (Reiwa 5).

1. Materials and internet information of local assemblies

There are two general types of materials of local assemblies.
a) Minutes: Records of plenary sessions and committees' deliberations. These are the most basic materials.
b) Bills: Issues of ordinances, budgets, account settlement, etc., that are submitted to and discussed at local assemblies.

Many local assemblies have proceeded with digitization and have published recent minutes, bills, etc. on the internet. Minutes of plenary sessions are generally posted on local government websites. Committees' minutes and bills are often published differently.
Websites of each prefecture and ordinance-designated city's assemblies are available through the links below. As for assemblies of other municipalities, users can find them through the word "議会(Assembly)" on the top page menu of each local government by following the relevant links. In each case, users can find the minutes and bills from the "Assembly" page.

A website named "Search engine for minutes of local assemblies by prefecture" operated by an individual (East Japan edition, West Japan edition) also contains links to websites of local assemblies which have public search engines.

2. Reference: Japanese local autonomy system and statistics on local assembly members

The following files are materials about the local autonomy system posted on the website of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. They describe the roles of assemblies and their relationships with local chief executives.

• 2014 (Heisei 26) Asian Local Administration seminar 1. Keynote speech (Japan) "Local Self-Government in Japan" (in English) 2014.5.

And the following file is also posted on the website of CLAIR (Council of Local Authorities for International Relations).

• Local Government in Japan 2020 (2022 Revised Edition) (in English)

The website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has the latest statistics about local assembly members (in Japanese).

3. Links: Websites of prefectural and ordinance-designated city assemblies

Each category is arranged in the order of the prefecture code (JIS X 0401: 1973) and municipal code (JIS X 0401: 1973) set by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
The latest materials of assemblies are available at each website (Japanese).

3-1. Prefectural assemblies

Links

On the following websites of local assemblies, you can view recent documents of their assemblies (in Japanese).

Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Special Committee Meetings on Budget and Special Committee Meetings on Audit / Bills and resolutions, etc)

Aomori Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Opinions, resolutions, etc)

Iwate Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Special Committee Meetings on Budget and Special Committee Meetings on Audit)

Miyagi Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Akita Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Yamagata Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings/ Proceedings of Special Committee Meetings on Budget / Other Documents)

Fukushima Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Regular Meeting data file including a list of bills)

Ibaraki Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Standing Committee Meetings / Proceedings of Special Committee Meetings on Budget)

Tochigi Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Standing Committee Meetings)

Gunma Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings)

Saitama Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / resolutions, etc.)

Chiba Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Standing Committee Meetings)

Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bill discussion results, etc)

Niigata Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Toyama Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Special Committee Meetings on Budget and Committee Meetings on Policy / Bills and decisions, etc)

Ishikawa Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Fukui Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Yamanashi Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / List of bills, etc.)

Nagano Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills and decisions, etc)

Gifu Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Bills and petition / Opinions, resolutions, etc.)

Aichi Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Mie Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Shiga Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Kyoto Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Osaka Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bill discussion results)

Hyogo Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Nara Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Wakayama Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings)

Tottori Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings)

Shimane Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Okayama Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings)

Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Yamaguchi Prefectural Assembly /a>

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Standing Committee Meetings)

Tokushima Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Kagawa Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Ehime Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Opinions, resolutions)

Kochi Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Opinions, resolutions)

Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Information on Plenary Meetings)

Saga Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Results of deliberations on bills, etc.)

Nagasaki Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Standing Committee Meetings)

Kumamoto Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings)

Oita Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Miyazaki Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Kagoshima Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Okinawa Prefectural Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Special Committee Meetings on Budget and Special Committee Meetings on Audit / Opinions and resolutions)

3-2. Assemblies of Ordinance-designated cities

Sapporo City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Opinions and resolutions)

Sendai City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Opinions and resolutions)

Saitama City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Material retrieval system)

Chiba City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills and result / Opinions, resolutions)

Yokohama City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills and result / Opinions, resolutions)

Kawasaki City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills and result)

Sagamihara City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills)

Niigata City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills)

Shizuoka City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills / Opinions, resolutions)

Hamamatsu City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Nagoya City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Deliberation progress of bills)

Kyoto City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Schedure and results)

Osaka City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / List of Bills, etc.)

Sakai City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Kobe City Assembly [English page]

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Results)

Okayama City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Hiroshima City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

Kitakyushu City Assembly

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills and results)

Fukuoka City Council [English page]

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings / Bills and results)

Kumamoto City Council

(Proceedings of Plenary Meetings / Proceedings of Committee Meetings)

4. The PDOP Room holding materials

The PDOP Room has proceedings of some of the prefectural assemblies in the Meiji era, prefectural assemblies after World War II and city councils after 1985. For details of the stored proceedings, please make an inquiry to The PDOP Room.

Please note that only some of the budget bills submitted to the local assemblies are stored.