Holds the final power to determine constitutionality, exercised sparingly. It sits as three petty benches of five and a fifteen-justice grand bench for constitutional questions.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Apex court with constitutional review
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Seat
- Tokyo
- Established
- 1947
- Composition
- Chief Justice and fourteen Justices
- Appointment
- Cabinet appointment, subject to periodic popular review at general elections
Where an appeal goes next
Final
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