In Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, an , also called a facility, is a collective term for organizations such as test and research agencies or training schools that are under the controls of the Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office (Japan)

is an agency in the Cabinet of Japan. It is responsible for handling the day to day affairs of the cabinet. The Cabinet Office is formally headed by the Prime Minister. There are usually three Vice Ministers and three Parliamentary Secretaries in the Cabinet Office.-Organization:-External...

 or other governmental organizations established due to Article 3 Clause 2 of the National Government Organization Law. It is distinguished from an attached organization

Attached organization

In Japan, an is an organization in the Japanese government that is attached to the Cabinet Office, ministries or their Government agency and is established for some special purposes. It is distinguished from an affiliated institution. The classification was created when the amendments to the...

. The classification was created on 1 July 1985 when an amendment to the National Government Organization Law was put into effect

Examples

• Meteorological College
  Meteorological College
  is an educational institution affiliated to the Japan Meteorological Agency whose purpose is to train officials of the agency. It is located in Kashiwa, Chiba. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1922, and it was chartered as a four-year college in 1962....
  
  
• Akasaka Palace
• Institute for Information and Communications Policy