Dōshūsei (道州制, lit. 'circuit and state system') is a proposal to organize Japan into one circuit (dō) of Hokkaido and several new states (shū) that are...

consolidate the current prefectures into about 10 regional states (so-called dōshūsei). The plan called for each region to have greater autonomy than existing...

bureaucratic organizations of the prefecture and the city of Osaka, towards Dōshūsei. The party is a major force in the politics within Osaka Prefecture, with...

Tokyo's past and Osaka's proposed reorganization. Greater Nagoya Initiative Dōshūsei 愛知知事選、大村議員が出馬表明　河村市長と連携掲げる Archived 2010-12-09 at the Wayback Machine 朝日新聞...

Japan Push for further devolution with merger of prefectures into states (dōshūsei), while allocating the consumption tax as a regional tax Constitutional...

2008, at the Wayback Machine", yuriko.or.jp, January 2008.(in Japanese) "Dōshūsei Dōnyū ni Iyoku", Chugoku Shimbun, 15 September 2008.(in Japanese) Ashcraft...

Councillors election. The party advocates decentralization, federalism (Dōshūsei),[citation needed] free education, and limited government policies. Arguing...

support for a strong local government with strong authority, such as the Dōshūsei and the Federalism such as UK. In 2005, Lim John Chuan-tiong (林泉忠), an...

administrative reform commission studying the potential for implementing the dōshūsei federal government system in Japan, and served in this capacity from 2006...

deregulation and reducing corporate taxes, as well as implementation of a dōshūsei federal system. He openly considered leaving the House of Councillors to...