Cooperation Conference - Kyoryokukaigi

...The prime minister served as president (the previous presidents were Konoe, Tojo Hideki, Koiso Kuniaki, and Suzuki Kantaro), had the power to appoint and dismiss all officials from the secretary general on down, and the central headquarters had five bureaus (general affairs, organization, policy, planning, and assembly) and 23 departments. As local organizations, branches were established in each prefecture, the six major cities, counties, and municipalities, and a Central Cooperation Council was established at the center as an institution for "lower-level information and upper-level communication," and a cooperation council was attached to each branch at each level. At first, the prefectural standing committee members acted as prefectural branch chiefs, but later the governors took over, and in many cases the chairmen of the town and village mayors' associations or mayors of municipalities were appointed as county, city, ward, town, and village branch chiefs. ...

*Some of the terminology used in the "Cooperative Conference" are listed below.

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…総裁は首相が兼任し(歴代総裁は近衛，東条英機，小磯国昭，鈴木貫太郎)，事務総長以下の全役員の任免権を握り，中央本部には総務･組織･政策･企画･議会の5局と23部が置かれた。地方組織としては道府県･六大都市･郡･市区町村に各支部が置かれ，〈下情上通〉機関として中央に中央協力会議が，各段階の支部にそれぞれ協力会議が付置された。道府県支部長は，最初道府県の常務委員が職務を代行していたが，のちには知事が就任し，多くの郡市区町村支部長には町村長会の会長や市区町村長が指名された。…

※「協力会議」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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