Administrative Committee - Gyoseiinkai

Japanese: 行政委員会 - ギョウセイイインカイ

An administrative organ. A deliberative organ established independently of the general administrative system in order to promote administration that requires political neutrality. Many of them have quasi-judicial powers such as litigation decisions and quasi-legislative powers such as rule-making.
[Additional information] National government agencies include the National Personnel Authority (under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet), the Fair Trade Commission, the National Public Safety Commission, and the Personal Information Protection Commission (Cabinet Office), the Pollution Adjustment Commission (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications), the Public Security Examination Commission (Ministry of Justice), the Central Labor Relations Commission (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare), the Japan Transport Safety Board (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism), and the Nuclear Regulation Authority (Ministry of the Environment), while local government agencies include the board of education and election administration commission (prefectures and municipalities), the personnel commission or fairness commission (prefectures and designated cities, etc.), the public safety commission, labor commission, expropriation commission, marine area fisheries adjustment committee, inland fisheries management committee (prefectures only), and the agricultural committee and fixed asset assessment review committee (municipalities only).

Source: About Shogakukan Digital Daijisen Information | Legend

Japanese:

行政機関の一。政治的中立性を必要とする行政を推進するため、一般行政機構から独立して設置される合議制の機関。訴訟の判断などの準司法的権能、規則制定などの準立法的権能を有するものが多い。
[補説]国の機関として人事院（内閣所轄）、公正取引委員会・国家公安委員会・特定個人情報保護委員会（内閣府）、公害等調整委員会（総務省）、公安審査委員会（法務省）、中央労働委員会（厚生労働省）、運輸安全委員会（国土交通省）、原子力規制委員会（環境省）があり、地方公共団体の機関として教育委員会・選挙管理委員会（都道府県と市町村）、人事委員会または公平委員会（都道府県と指定都市等）、公安委員会・労働委員会・収用委員会・海区漁業調整委員会・内水面漁場管理委員会（都道府県のみ）、農業委員会・固定資産評価審査委員会（市町村のみ）がある。

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