Editing Question time (section)

===Japan===
[[File:Ichiro Ozawa and Yasuo Fukuda 20080109.jpg|thumb|[[Ichirō Ozawa]] and [[Yasuo Fukuda]] debate each other during a Question Time session in January 2008.]]
The [[Diet of Japan]] held its first {{nihongo|question time|党首討論|tōshu tōron}} on 10 November 1999; the first question asked to Prime Minister [[Keizo Obuchi]] was "Prime Minister, what did you have for breakfast this morning?".<ref>{{cite news | last = French | first = Howard W. | author-link = Howard W. French | title = Hear, Hear, Please! 'Question Time' in Japan | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = 22 November 1999 | page = A8 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/22/world/hear-hear-please-question-time-in-japan.html | access-date = 18 May 2009}}</ref> Japan's question time was closely modeled after that of the UK, and many Diet members travelled to the House of Commons to study the British application of the concept.<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref>

Question time is 45 minutes long and questions are limited to the leaders of parliamentary caucuses (which must consist of at least ten members of either house). Although it is generally held every week while the Diet is in session, it may be cancelled with the agreement of the opposition: this often happens during the budgeting period and at other times when the prime minister must sit in the Diet.