| 中央官庁 | [ちゅうおうかんちょう, chuuoukanchou] (n) central government agencies; central bureaucracy |
| 中央政府 | [ちゅうおうせいふ, chuuouseifu] (n) central government |
| 中央省庁 | [ちゅうおうしょうちょう, chuuoushouchou] (n) central government ministries and agencies |
| 中央省庁再編 | [ちゅうおうしょうちょうさいへん, chuuoushouchousaihen] (n) Japan's 2001 central government restructuring |
| 中央行政官庁 | [ちゅうおうぎょうせいかんちょう, chuuougyouseikanchou] (n) agencies of a central government |
| 国家財政 | [こっかざいせい, kokkazaisei] (n) (See 地方財政) national finance; central government finance |
| 本庁 | [ほんちょう, honchou] (n) central government office; this office |
| 満漢偶数官制 | [まんかんぐうすうかんせい, mankanguusuukansei] (n) Qing-dynasty system assigning equal numbers of Manchurians and Han Chinese to central government agencies |
| 親方日の丸 | [おやかたひのまる, oyakatahinomaru] (n) attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees |
| 飛騨の匠 | [ひだのたくみ, hidanotakumi] (n) historical system whereby the Hida region provided 10 carpenters per village the central government in place of taxes |