Q&A: Dissolving Japan's lower house at outset of ordinary parliamentary session

The followings are questions and answers about dissolving the House of Representatives at the outset of an ordinary parliamentary session.Q: Has the lower house been dissolved at the start of a parliamentary session before?A: Under the current Constitution adopted in 1947, there have been only four similar cases, in 1966, 1986, 1996 and 2017.Only in 1966 case was the lower house dissolved at the beginning of a regular parliamentary session, which basically lasts 150 days. The other three cases took place when an extraordinary session was convened.The ordinary parliamentary session used to b…READ FULL ARTICLE