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The General Affairs State Council was the de facto executive administrative branch
Executive (government)

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 of the government of the Japanese-controlled Empire of Manchukuo
Manchukuo

Manchukuo was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia. The region was the Qing Dynasty's historical homeland, created by former Qing Dynasty officials with help from Imperial Japan in 1932....
 from 1934-1945.

hukuo was proclaimed a monarchy
Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
 on 1 March 1934, with former Qing dynasty
Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
 emperor Puyi
Puyi

Puyi , of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ruling family, was the last Emperor of China. He ruled in two periods between 1908 and 1924, firstly as the Xuantong Emperor between 1908 and 1912, and nominally as a non-ruling puppet emperor for twelve days in 1917....
 assuming the Manchukuo throne under the reign name of Emperor Kang-de. An imperial rescript
Imperial Rescript

An Imperial Rescript is a major political edict issued from an imperial authority. In each culture where practiced there are specific traditions, normally associated with the written form the statement takes ....
 issued the same day, promulgated the organic law
Organic law

An organic law or fundamental law is a law or system of laws which forms the foundation of a government, corporation or other organization's body of rules....
 of the new state, establishing a Privy Council
Privy council

A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation on how to exercise their Executive , typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchy....
, a Legislative Council
Legislative Council

A Legislative Council is the name given to the legislatures, or one of the chambers of the legislature of many nations and colonies.A member of the Legislative Council is commonly referred to as an MLC....
 and the General Affairs State Council
Council of State

The Council of State is the name of an organ of government in many states, and especially in republics. The name Council of State is applied to different types of bodies in different states, from the formal name for the cabinet to a non-executive advisory body surrounding a head of state....
 to “advise and assist the emperor in the discharge of his duties”.






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The General Affairs State Council was the de facto executive administrative branch
Executive (government)

Sorry, no overview for this topic
 of the government of the Japanese-controlled Empire of Manchukuo
Manchukuo

Manchukuo was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia. The region was the Qing Dynasty's historical homeland, created by former Qing Dynasty officials with help from Imperial Japan in 1932....
 from 1934-1945.

Background

Manchukuo was proclaimed a monarchy
Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
 on 1 March 1934, with former Qing dynasty
Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
 emperor Puyi
Puyi

Puyi , of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ruling family, was the last Emperor of China. He ruled in two periods between 1908 and 1924, firstly as the Xuantong Emperor between 1908 and 1912, and nominally as a non-ruling puppet emperor for twelve days in 1917....
 assuming the Manchukuo throne under the reign name of Emperor Kang-de. An imperial rescript
Imperial Rescript

An Imperial Rescript is a major political edict issued from an imperial authority. In each culture where practiced there are specific traditions, normally associated with the written form the statement takes ....
 issued the same day, promulgated the organic law
Organic law

An organic law or fundamental law is a law or system of laws which forms the foundation of a government, corporation or other organization's body of rules....
 of the new state, establishing a Privy Council
Privy council

A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation on how to exercise their Executive , typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchy....
, a Legislative Council
Legislative Council

A Legislative Council is the name given to the legislatures, or one of the chambers of the legislature of many nations and colonies.A member of the Legislative Council is commonly referred to as an MLC....
 and the General Affairs State Council
Council of State

The Council of State is the name of an organ of government in many states, and especially in republics. The name Council of State is applied to different types of bodies in different states, from the formal name for the cabinet to a non-executive advisory body surrounding a head of state....
 to “advise and assist the emperor in the discharge of his duties”. The Privy Council was an appointive body consisting of Puyi's closest friends and confidants, and the Legislative Council was largely an honorary body without authority. The State Council was therefore the center of political power in Manchukuo.

Workings

The General Affairs State Council consisted of ten ministries forming a cabinet. The cabinet ministers were all native Manchukuoans, of either ethnic Manchu
Manchu

The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....
 or Han Chinese
Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
 descent, and in all cases, the vice-ministers in each ministry were Imperial Japanese Army
Imperial Japanese Army

The Imperial Japanese Army , or literally Army of Empire of Greater Japan was the official ground based armed force of Imperial Japan from 1867 to 1945....
 officers, appointed by the Kwantung Army
Kwantung Army

The , also known as the Guandong Army , was an army group of the Imperial Japanese Army in the early twentieth century. It became the largest and most prestigious command in the IJA....
 leadership. The Japanese vice-ministers functions in roles similar to British resident officer
Resident Commissioner

Resident Commissioner is the title of several, quite different types of Commissioner in overseas possession or protectorate of the British Crown or of the U.S.A....
s in British overseas protectorates in that they had final approval over any actions of the “native” ministers. The State Council itself was presided over by a Secretary-General, the first of whom was Takuzo Komai, an ethnic Japanese.

The Council's initial composition was at the time of Prime Minister Zheng Xiaoxu
Zheng Xiaoxu

Zh?ng Xi?oxu . Chinese statesman, diplomat and East Asian calligraphy....
 included the following portfolio
Ministry (government department)

A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a Political minister, but usually a Civil service, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or administrative organisations....
s:
  • Prime Minister
  • Home Affairs
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Defense
  • Finance
  • Industry and Agriculture
  • Transportation and Communications
  • Justice
  • Education
  • Mongolian Affairs


The State Council building

The State Council Building was an imposing five-story structure with two four-story wings built in downtown Hsinking in reinforced concrete
Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete is concrete in which steel reinforcement bars or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be brittle....
 with a portal frame construction with a pseudo-oriental roof with towers. The building was designed so that its main entrance faces west. The building is still in use today by the Jilin
Jilin

, is a political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China located in the Northeast China part of the country. Jilin borders North Korea and Russia to the east, Heilongjiang to the north, Liaoning to the south, and Inner Mongolia to the west....
 Provincial government of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
. Each of the main cabinet-level ministries also had its own imposing building. Many of these structures are still in use in various capacities in modern China.