Japan budget comprises 32 Special Account and the General Accounts budget. Diet or the Japanese parliament approves of the budget. Japan has as many as 9 financial bodies affiliated by the government.
The General account budget is often referred to as “the budget”. The General accounting budget has details of expenses pertaining to government projects and programs. These may include programs related to science, education, social security, public works, energy resources, national security of the country or defense activities, economic coordination. It provides an overview of the government policies.
Whenever the Japanese government intends to carry out certain tasks which do not fall in the category of General accounting, the special account budget is prepared.
The agencies affiliated to the government function as per special laws. Their approach is more flexible in terms of accounting as well as personnel management.
The defence budget of Japan allocates funds for the various defense activities of the country. The following provides some statistics on the defense budget of Japan.