*47 PREFECTURES*
(都道府県 / Todōfuken)
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“AICHI”
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“AKITA”
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“AOMORI”
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“CHIBA”
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“EHIME”
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“FUKUI”
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“FUKUOKA”
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“FUKUSHIMA”
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“GIFU”
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“GUNMA”
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“HYOGO”
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“IBARAKI”
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“ISHIKAWA”
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“IWATE”
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“KAGAWA”
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“KAGOSHIMA”
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“KANAGAWA”
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“KOCHI”
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“KUMAMOTO”
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“KYOTO”
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“MIE”
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“MIYAGI”
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“MIYAZAKI”
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“NAGANO”
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“NARA”
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“NIIGATA”
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“OITA”
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“OKAYAMA”
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“OSAKA”
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“SAGA”
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“SAITAMA”
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“SHIGA”
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“SHIMANE”
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“SHIZUOKA”
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“TOCHIGI”
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“TOKUSHIMA”
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“TOTTORI”
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“TOYAMA”
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“WAKAYAMA”
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“YAMAGATA”
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“YAMAGUCHI”
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“YAMANASHI”
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(the prefectures of japan consist of ’47 prefectures’)
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(they form the first level of ‘jurisdiction’ + ‘administrative division’ of ‘japan’)
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(they consist of…)
’43 prefectures proper’
(県 ken)
‘2 urban prefectures’
(府 fu)
(‘osaka’ + ‘kyoto’)
*1 ‘circuit’ (or ‘territory’)*
(道 dō)
(‘hokkaido’)
*1 ‘metropolis’*
(都 to)
(‘tokyo’)
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(the meiji Fuhanken sanchisei administration created the first prefectures to replace the provinces of Japan in ‘1868’)
(each prefecture’s ‘chief executive’ is a ‘directly-elected governor’ (知事 chiji))
(‘ordinances’ and ‘budgets’ are enacted by a unicameral assembly (議会 gikai) whose members are elected for four-year terms)
Under the current Local Autonomy Law, each prefecture is subdivided into cities (市 shi) and districts (郡 gun) and each district into towns (町 chō/machi) and villages (村 son/mura).
For example, Hokkaido has 14 subprefectures that act as branch offices (支庁 shichō) of the prefecture.
(some other prefectures also have branch offices that carry out prefectural administrative functions outside the capital)
(‘tokyo’ (the capital of ‘japan’) is a ‘merged city-prefecture’)
(a ‘metropolis’, it has features of both ‘cities’ + ‘prefectures’)
KUMAMOTO
sakamoto
KYOTO
“kinkaku-ji”
(a zen buddhist temple)
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