The All-Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union (Japanese: 全日本自治団体労働組合, Jichiro) is a trade union representing local government workers in Japan.
[1] It was affiliated with the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan and grew rapidly, attaining 559,397 members by 1967.
In 1989, it became affiliated with the Japanese Trade Union Confederation.
[3] Members who objected to this affiliation left and formed the rival Japan Federation of Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Unions.
[5] Despite this, by 2020, its membership had declined to 785,445, though it was still Japan's second-largest union.