National Cabinet - Kyokoku-naka-ku

...While it is easy to create a sense of national unity in times of crisis, there are many cases where the government does not have the power to act as expected due to a lack of means of control within the cabinet. In the UK, where there was a strong tradition of single-party cabinets except during wartime, the MacDonald government, which was composed of the Conservative and Liberal parties and the National Labour Party that had separated from the Labour Party, was formed in 1931 in response to the Great Depression and was famously called a national government. In Japan, the Saito Makoto cabinet, which was formed the following year after the May 15 Incident, is generally considered to be the first national unity cabinet. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "national cabinet" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…危機における国民の一体感をつくりやすい反面，閣内統制手段の不足から期待したほど実行力の伴わない場合も多い。戦時を除き単一政党内閣の伝統が強かったイギリスで，世界大恐慌に対応するため，保守，自由両党と労働党から分離した国民労働党によって構成されるマクドナルド内閣が1931年に発足し，挙国内閣national governmentと呼ばれたのが有名。日本では翌年の五･一五事件後成立した斎藤実内閣が通例最初の挙国一致内閣とされる。…

※「挙国内閣」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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