논문

Until now, the local administration has held on to the centralization of administrative power. Accordingly, the local administrative system has been operated in compliance with the centralized ruling system. As far as the functional distribution between central government and local government is concerned, the administrative affairs delegated by the central government to local government become the subject of issue. From the standpoint of local government, the delegated administrative affairs are the factors to restrict local autonomy. On the other hand, the central government regards the delegated affairs as the instrument which makes the performance of national administrative affairs smoothly. With the advancement of local autonomy system, the local autonomy law was revised without the complete examination of delegated administrative affairs. However, the delegated affairs should be redefined in any manner in the future. In order to settle down the local autonomy system, now is the time for us to reconsider the delegated administrative affairs, although it might be late. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to examine the following aspects; the kinds and contents of the autonomous administrative affairs of Japan, the legal aspect of the delegated administrative affairs to local government, and the problems and future directions in relation to the delegated affairs.