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| 国土交通省 Kokudokōtsūshō | |
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 Central Government Building # 3: MLIT Headquarters | |
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| Formed | 2001 (2001) |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Japan |
| Headquarters | 2-1-3Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8918 Japan 35°40′34″N139°45′01″E / 35.6759842°N 139.7502087°E /35.6759842; 139.7502087 |
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| Website | mlit.go.jp/en |
TheMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通省,Kokudo-kōtsū-shō; lit. 'Ministry of Land and Transport';MLIT) is a ministry of theJapanese government.[1] It is responsible for one-third of all the laws and orders in Japan and is the largest Japanese ministry in terms of employees, as well as the second-largest executive agency of the Japanese government after theMinistry of Defense. The ministry oversees four external agencies including theJapan Coast Guard, theJapan Meteorological Agency and theJapan Tourism Agency.
MLIT was established as part of the administrative reforms of January 6, 2001, which merged theMinistry of Transport, theMinistry of Construction, theHokkaido Development Agency [ja] (北海道開発庁Hokkaidō-kaihatsu-chō), and theNational Land Agency [ja] (国土庁Kokudo-chō). Before the ministry renamed itself on January 8, 2008, the ministry's English name was "Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport".[2]One of the mother ministries, the Ministry of Construction, along with the former Ministry of Home Affairs, the National Police Agency and the former Ministry of Health and Welfare, is the successor to the pre-WW2Home Ministry, and has sent deputy governors and deputy mayors to each prefecture and municipality since becoming the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
MLIT is organized into the following bureaus:[3][4]
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