Overview

The Cabinet Officeʼs Role in the Cabinet

Unique Functions

Ministers of State for Special Missions “Ministers of State for Special Missions,” ordered to provide strong and prompt policy planning and comprehensive policy coordination on crucial issues in the Cabinet, are exclusively established in the Cabinet Office.

Important Policy Councils The Cabinet Office works as "the place of wisdom" that helps the Cabinet and the Prime Minister. The Cabinet Office has five “Important Policy Councils”; the chairman of each council should be either the Prime Minister or the Chief Cabinet Secretary, while members of the councils are designated to ministers in charge of related policies and specialists in the fields.

Structure

Prime Minister

Chief Cabinet Minister of State Secretary for Special Missions

Deputy Chief Cabinet Senior Vice‐Minister （ ） （ ） Secretary 3 6 Parliamentary Secretary（7）

Vice‐Minister Vice‐Minister for Policy Coodination（2）

Director General for Economic and Fiscal P.5 Minister's Management Secretariat Director General for ●Director General for Policy Economic, Fiscal and P.8 Coordination Social Structure ●Deputy Director General for Policy Evaluation Director General for ●Deputy Director General for P.11 Economic Research National Space Policy ●Deputy Director General for Policy on Declining Birthrate and Director General for Youth Affairs Science and P.13 ●Deputy Director General（18） Technology Policy ●Director（9） General Affairs Division Director General for P.16 Secretarial Office Disaster Management

Personnel Division Director General for Accounts Division P.19 Okinawa affairs Policy Coordination Division Director General for P.21 International Affairs Office Policies on Cohesive Society Office for Information Systems

Policy Evaluation and Public Relations Division Records and Archives Director（42） Management Division P.33 Public Relations Office P.34 Director of Welfare Office

●Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy（P.4） ●Council for Science and Technology Policy（P.13） ●Council on National Strategic Special Zones ●Central Disaster Managiment Council（P.16） ●Council for Gender Equality（P.30）

●Committee on National Space Policy ●Committeefor the Promotion of Private Finance Initiative ●Supervisory Commission for Public‐Private and Private‐Private Competitive Tenderings ┗Secretariat（P.47） ●Food Safety Commission Decoration ●Economic and Social Research P.27 ┗Secretariat（P.48） Institute（P.56） Bureau ●Council for Children and Child‐rearing ●State Guest House（P.57） ●Commission on Evaluation of General Affairs Division Incorporated Administrative Agencies ● ●Public Records and Archives Management Examination Officer（3） Northern Territories Affairs Administration（P.58） Commission ●Financial System Management Council ●Central Council on Promotion of Measures Gender Equality ●Council for the Promotion of Private for Persons with Disabilities P.29 ● Bureau Finance Initiative Atomic Energy Commission ●LocalGovernment System Research ●Headquarters for Promotion of Support Council General Affairs Division for Youth Affairs ●Election System Council ●Council for Food Education Promotion ●Council on the House of Representatives Research Division ●Declining Fertility Society Policy Council Electoral District ●Aging Society Policy Council Gender Equality ●Council for Relocation of the Diet and Promotion Division ●CentralTraffic Safety Policy Council Other Organizations Office for Elimination of ●Council for the Promotion of Policies for ┗Secretariat Violence against Women Crime Victims ●StatisticsCommission（P.49） ●Council for Policy of Suicide Prevention ●Information Disclosure and Personal Okinawa ●Council for Poor Children Information Protection Review Board Development and P.19 ●Consumer Policy Council ┗Secretariat（P.50） Promotion Bureau ●InternationalPeace Cooperation ●Public Interest Corporation Commission Headquarters ┗Secretariat（P.59） ┗Secretariat（P.38） General Affairs Division ●Science Council of Japan ●Reemployment Surveillance Commission ┗ （ ） Development and ┗Secretariat（P.61） Secretariat P.51 ● Promotion Office ●Center for Personnel Interchanges Consumer Commission ┗Secretariat（P.53） Office for Support of between the Government and Private ●Okinawa Development Council Military Base Reuse Entities（P.52） ● ●Council for Nuclear Power Sited Regions Council for Regulatory Reform ┗ （ ） Director（4） ●Council for the Policy on Corpse Secretariat P.55 ● Examination ┗Secretariat（P.62） Tax Commission

●Okinawa General Bureau （P.19） ●Imperial Household Agency

●Fair Trade Commission ●National Public Safety Commission ●Specific Personal Information Protection Commission ●Financial Services Agency ●Consumer Affairs Agency