The Japanese Government, especially the Ministry of Interior, expressed disapproval of that draft, and objected to the direct election of prefectural governors. As a result, based on the draft by the GHQ, the Constitution has come to provide for the following: (1) rules and regulations governing local public entities to be fixed in accordance with "the principle of local autonomy"; (2) the direct popular election of executive officers and assembly members in all local public entities; (3) the right of local public entities to manage local government property, affairs, and administration and to enact their own regulations; and (4) consent by the majority of the voters before any special law applicable to one local public entity can be enacted by the Diet.
The Japanese Government, especially the Ministry of Interior, expressed disapproval of that draft, and objected to the direct election of prefectural governors. As a result, based on the draft by the GHQ, the Constitution has come to provide for the following: (1) rules and regulations governing local public entities to be fixed in accordance with "the principle of local autonomy"; (2) the direct popular election of executive officers and assembly members in all local public entities; (3) the right of local public entities to manage local government property, affairs, and administration and to enact their own regulations; and (4) consent by the majority of the voters before any special law applicable to one local public entity can be enacted by the Diet.
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