Vice-Minister - Jimu Jikan

Japanese: 事務次官 - じむじかん

A general-grade national civil servant who assists the ministers who are the heads of each ministry, as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary and Ministers of State for Special Missions in the Cabinet Office, organizes the affairs of the ministry or office, and oversees the affairs of each bureau and organization. Based on the National Government Organization Act and the Cabinet Office Establishment Act, one vice-minister is placed in each ministry and Cabinet Office, and is appointed by each minister and the Chief Cabinet Secretary. Unlike Vice-Ministers and Parliamentary Vice-Ministers, who are mainly members of the Diet and whose duties are shared with the Cabinet, the top bureaucrats take on the position and oversee the affairs under them. The Reconstruction Agency, which was established in 2011 under the Basic Act for Reconstruction in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake, also has a vice-minister.

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Japanese:

各省の長である大臣，および内閣府の内閣官房長官，特命担当大臣を助け，省務または府務を整理し，各部局および機関の事務を監督する一般職の国家公務員。国家行政組織法，内閣府設置法に基づき，各省および内閣府に 1人ずつ置かれ，各大臣，内閣官房長官によって任命される。おもに国会議員が職務について内閣と進退をともにする副大臣および大臣政務官と異なり，官僚のトップが就任して，彼らの下で事務を統括する。なお，2011年施行の東日本大震災復興基本法により設置された復興庁にも事務次官が置かれている。

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