Inner cabinet

Japanese: インナー･キャビネット（英語表記）inner cabinet

A cabinet within a cabinet, composed of a small number of powerful ministers, which decides on the overall direction of national government and coordinates important policies in place of cabinet meetings of all ministers. When the pressures of war or social crisis are added to situations such as coalition cabinets and an expansion of the number of ministers, the tendency to concentrate decision-making power in a small number of powerful ministers becomes stronger, and this is made official and established. In Britain, the famous minority cabinets of Lloyd George in World War I and Churchill in World War II were composed of 5 to 8 people, including the prime minister, military ministers, and ministers without portfolio. In Japan, the Five-Minister and Four-Minister Conferences that began with the Saito Makoto cabinet after the Manchurian Incident are sometimes compared to this.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

少数有力閣僚で構成され，全閣僚の閣議に代わり国政全般の方針決定や重要諸政策の調整にあたる内閣内の内閣。連立内閣や閣僚数膨張等の事態に戦争や社会危機の圧力が加わると，少数有力閣僚に決定権が集中する傾向が強まり，これが公式化されて成立する。イギリスでは第1次大戦のロイド･ジョージ，第2次大戦のチャーチル両戦時少数内閣が有名で，首相以下軍事関係諸相，無任所相等5～8名で構成された。日本では満州事変後の斎藤実内閣に始まる五相･四相会議がこれと比較されることもある。

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