General administration / Tatsuo Hatta President National Graduate Institute / National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies / National Graduate Institute / Hiroshi Ikawa Chairperson Research committee / Japan Hiroshi IKAWA Professor National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies / National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Introduction Decentralization / Central government / Institute for Comparative Studies / National Printing Bureau / Council of Local Authorities for International Relations / Research committee / International Information Division / Japanese government / /