Local administrative officer

Japanese: 地方事務官 - ちほうじむかん

National civil servants were placed in prefectures to handle certain affairs, such as social insurance and employment security, as specified by government ordinance. They were abolished with the enforcement of the Omnibus Law for Promoting Local Autonomy in 2000 (amendment of the Local Autonomy Law). Some agency-delegated affairs were assigned to employees with national civil servant status, rather than local civil servants, and were an exception to the basic system of national and local civil servants. The governor had the power to command and supervise, but the power to appoint them was the national government, and Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Local Autonomy Law before the amendment stipulated that they should be appointed "for the time being." From the perspective of the essence of local autonomy, their existence has long been problematic and they have been reduced. With the abolition of agency-delegated affairs following the amendment of the Local Autonomy Law, the affairs that local civil servants were engaged in became affairs that the national government directly executed, and social insurance-related civil servants became welfare civil servants, and employment security-related civil servants became labor civil servants.

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Japanese:

都道府県において，社会保険，職業安定など，政令で定められた一定の事務を処理するために置かれた国家公務員。2000年地方分権推進一括法の施行（地方自治法の改正）により廃止された。一部の機関委任事務について，地方公務員ではなく，特に国家公務員たる身分をもつ職員に従事させたもので，原則的な国家公務員・地方公務員制度の例外であった。指揮監督権は知事にあったが，その選任権は国にあり，改正前地方自治法附則8条では「当分の間」と規定さていたもので，地方自治の本旨からみて，その存在がかねて問題とされ，縮小されてきた。地方自治法改正に伴う機関委任事務の廃止により，地方事務官が従事した事務は国が直接執行する事務となり，社会保険関係の事務官は厚生事務官，職業安定関係の事務官は労働事務官となった。

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