Editing National Diet (section)

=== Legislative process ===
The vast majority of bills are submitted to the Diet by the Cabinet.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Oda|first=Hiroshi|url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232185.001.1/acprof-9780199232185|title=Japanese Law|date=2009|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-923218-5|chapter=The Sources of Law|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232185.001.1|access-date=May 27, 2020|archive-date=June 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603081544/http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232185.001.1/acprof-9780199232185|url-status=live}}</ref> Bills are usually drafted by the relevant ministry, sometimes with the advice of an external committee if the issue is sufficiently important or neutrality is necessary.<ref>M. Nakamura and T. Tsunemoto, 'The Legislative Process: Outline and Actors', in Y.Higuchi (ed.), ''Five Decades of Constitutionalism in Japanese Society'' (Tokyo, 2001), pp. 197–219</ref> Such advisory committees may include university professors, trade union representatives, industry representatives, and local governors and mayors, and invariably include retired officials.<ref name=":0" /> Such draft bills would be sent to the [[Cabinet Legislation Bureau]] of the government, as well as to the ruling party.<ref name=":0" />