The , abbreviated MLIT, is a ministry of the Japanese government. It is responsible for one-third of all the laws and orders in Japan, and is the largest Japanese ministry in terms of employees, as well as the second-largest executive agency of the Japanese government after the Ministry of Defense. The ministry oversees four external agencies including the Japan Coast Guard and the Japan Tourism Agency. Overview In order to accomplish the tasks set forth in Article 3 of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Act, the following should be considered: national land planning, cities, roads, buildings, houses, rivers, ports, government maintenance, national land surveying, transportation, tourism policy, meteorological services It is responsible for matters related to national land, transportation, and social capital development, such as disaster countermeasures, security of the surrounding sea area, and security. Initially, the English notation was Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (land land, infrastructure construction, infrastructure, transport, transportation), but when the Tourism Agency was established on January 8, 2008, it means “tourism”. And added it to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Background MLIT was established as part of the administrative reforms of January 6, 2001, which merged the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Construction, the (北海道開発庁 Hokkaidō-kaihatsu-chō), and the (国土庁 Kokudo-chō). Before the ministry renamed itself on January 8, 2008, the ministry's English name was "Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport". On October 1, 2008, the Japan Tourism Agency was newly established, the Marine Accident Inquiry Agency was involved in investigating the causes of accidents, and the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Committee was integrated to establish a Transport Safety Committee and the Seafarers' Labor Committee was abolished. An organizational change was implemented to transfer the work of this committee to the Central Labor Commission and the Transport Policy Council. This is the first time a new ministry has been established in the central ministry since the so-called central ministry reorganization. On July 1, 2011, the bureau was reorganized to establish a cross-provincial system and to unify related administrations.To unify water-related administrations, the River Bureau and the Land and Water Resources Bureau Reorganize the Ministry of Resources and the Sewerage Department of the Urban and Regional Development Bureau, and reorganize the Land Management Department of the Land and Water Resources Department and the Construction Industry Administration Department of the General Policy Department into the “Water Management and Land