2018 Volume 74 Pages 23-47
The Public Records and Archives Management Act (Act No. 66 of 2009) was enforced on 2011 in Japan. As well as Administrative Organs also Legislative Organs are required to be managed documents properly. However, the Legislative Organs have not clarified how the document management is carried out based on the purpose of the act, its actual condition. Therefore, in this paper, the purpose of the research was to clarify the situation of management of documents at the Secretariat of the House of Representatives and the Secretariat of the House of Councillors. As a result, secretariats of both houses have revised the regulations in consideration of the purpose of this Act, however it became clear that there are exceptions in the obligation provision for preparation of documents, and there was no centralized management.
