Q. Japan’s Parliament is known as….?
Solution:
- The National Diet is Japan’s bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house called the House of Representatives, and an upper house called the House of Councillors.
- Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under parallel voting systems.
- The term is mainly used historically for the Imperial Diet, the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire, and for the legislative bodies of certain countries.
- Modern usage mainly relates to the Kokkai of Japan, called “Diet” in English, or the German Bundestag, the Federal Diet.
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