The central government than the local government to be "large", so to be able to "control" the local government, if the word "possession" means local governments have stuck in front of the central government, and that in many places may not like, such as in Japan. Really from the law, the Japanese central government is able to bundle live in the place of the Chief Executive of the local government is really small, often "helpless". The reason is that the Chief Executive of the local government by democratically elected from, subject only to the constraints of the Public Offices Election Law, as long as it does not break the law, no one can remove him from office, so even if the central government and he did not rule from this sense really "The Prime Minister and the the village head side of the child."
 
Of course, in practice the central government influence local governments at lower levels of the local government or the local government at a higher level, or some, but also great, but this influence is not implemented by personnel authority. Japan's central government to local governments to "make trouble" only in financial problems, many local governments in Japan, the main sources of fiscal revenue and expenditure is a place also pay taxes "in the budget of the central government, which also pay the proportion the timing of delivery will be able to make local government distress when they need to look at the central or Eye of the higher levels of government, the Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto reforms advocated a content is variable consumption tax to local taxes "just want to get rid of" relying on central to eat, "the status quo.



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