The Minamoto established the first shogunate, or bakufu, which means ”tent government,” or one ruled by the military. The Minamoto bakufu was known as the Kamakura shogunate, which dominated Japan from 1185-1333 CE.

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Japan has a parliamentary system of government like Britain and Canada. Unlike the Americans or the French, the Japanese do not elect a president directly. Diet members elect a prime minister from among themselves. The prime minister forms and leads the cabinet of ministers of state.

The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan, adopted in 1947. It is a unitary state, containing forty-seven administrative divisions, with the Emperor as its Head of State. The Cabinet has the executive power and is formed by the Prime Minister, who is the Head of Government.

Appointment. The prime minister is designated by both houses of the Diet, before the conduct of any other business. For that purpose, each conducts a ballot under the run-off system. If the two houses choose different individuals, then a joint committee of both houses is appointed to agree on a common candidate.

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Yoshihide SugaSince 2020

On 8 September 2008, she launched her bid to become president of the LDP and became the first woman ever to seek the premiership in Japan’s history: “I have received the enthusiastic support of my colleagues.

Japan was deprived of any military capability after being defeated by the Allies in World War II and was forced to sign a surrender agreement presented by General Douglas MacArthur in 1945. It was occupied by U.S. forces and only had a minor domestic police force on which to rely for domestic security and crime.

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Japan is business-friendly where it comes to all formalities; Japan ranks 29th in the world when it comes to ease of doing business. Import of goods and services is estimated at 18.99% of the Japanese total GDP. Japan is the third largest economy in the world.

Japan is not open for tourism, only essential travel is allowed with strict restrictions and entry requirements. All visitors must submit proof of a negative PCR COVID-19 test taken within 92 before arrival and undergo a 14-day mandatory quarantine at home.

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Can Indian travel to the Japan? NO but selectively. Japan has currently suspended all the travel from India till further notice. This doesn’t apply to Japanese Nationals and Resident Card holders.

The Government of Japan will commence the following visa relaxation measures for multiple- entry-visa for short-term stay to nationals of India (ordinary passports holders) from 01 January 2018. In principle, applicants will be able to apply for multiple-entry-visa with only three documents below; Passport.

Therefore, the proper way to call the Japanese Prime Minister is Abe Shinzo, and not Shinzo Abe. Say it right, guys!

Address the envelope to “The Right Honourable”. The first line of the envelope should read “The Right Honourable”, followed by the first and last names of the Prime Minister. Below this, write “Prime Minister of” followed by the relevant country.

As a rule of thumb, in Japanese business life, the surname name is always followed by the honorific suffix “san” (meaning “dear” or actually “honorable Mr/Ms.”). There are of course many other options such as “sama” (highly revered customer or company manager) or “sensei” (Dr. or professor).

Web Japan provides information about Japan including facts, fun and new trends, traditional and pop culture, science and technology, food, travel, and life style.

Google is the most popular search engine in Japan with a share of 77%. Yahoo Japan is the #2 search engine, however, they use Google’s core search algorithms.

Basic Japanese Phrases

1. Hai. Yes. はい。
2. Iie. No. いいえ。
3. O-negai shimasu. Please. おねがいします。
4. Arigatō. Thank you. ありがとう。
5. Dōitashimashite. You’re welcome. どういたしまして。
6. Sumimasen. Excuse me. すみません。
7. Gomennasai. I am sorry. ごめんなさい。
8. Ohayō gozaimasu. Good morning. おはようございます。

Top 10 Most Popular Websites in Japan

• Yahoo.co.jp. Yahoo is much stronger in Japan then Google – the global percentage of Internet users who visit yahoo.co.jp is about 5 % daily.
• Google.co.jp.
• fc2.com.
• Youtube.com.
• Rakuten.co.jp.
• Ameblo.jp.
• Livedoor.com.
• Mixi.jp.

Older people who did not grow up with computers are often unwilling to upgrade their systems and adapt to change on a regular basis. As a result, Japanese website designers are forced to design their websites with older browsers in mind.

Goo (Japanese: goo) is an Internet search engine (powered by Google) and web portal based in Japan, which is used to crawl and index primarily Japanese language websites (before switching to Google). Goo is operated by the Japanese NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of NTT Communications.

Safari was the most popular tablet web browser in Japan as of March 2021, with a market share of close to 56 percent. It was followed by Chrome, which accounted for almost 30 percent of the tablet browser market.

In comparison with the US, Japan seems to have higher dependency to stick with Internet Explorer in many corporations. I guess this is because of the nature of companies in Japan spending less resource to IT personnel, and tendency to be rather conservative on technology which makes IE lives longer.

Brave launched its stable release, version 1.0, on 13 November 2019, while having 8.7 million monthly active users overall. At the time, it had approximately 3 million active users on a daily basis.

The website claims that Brave is spyware. It says this because they whitelist some trackers (see above), they have auto-updates that cannot be disabled, they use Google by default, their home page contains analytics, they have crash reports and make some other requests. Auto-updates are not directly anti-privacy.