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Prefectures of Japan

Index Prefectures of Japan

Japan is divided into 47, forming the first level of jurisdiction and administrative division. [1]

256 relations: Abolition of the han system, Administrative divisions of Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Aizu, Akita Prefecture, Akita, Akita, Albert Mosse, Aomori Prefecture, Aomori, Aomori, Ōita Prefecture, Ōita, Ōita, Ōtsu, Busan, Capital of Japan, Chūbu region, Chūgoku region, Cheongju, Chiba Prefecture, Chiba, Chiba, Chuncheon, Circuit (administrative division), Cities of Japan, Council of Local Authorities for International Relations, Counties of the People's Republic of China, County (Taiwan), Daegu, Daejeon, Dalian, Dōshūsei, Direct election, Districts of Japan, Districts of Portugal, Division of Korea, Edo period, Education in Japan, Ehime Prefecture, Ezo, Fief, Framing (social sciences), Fu (country subdivision), Fuhanken sanchisei, Fukui Prefecture, Fukui, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture, Fukushima, Fukushima, Gangwon Province, South Korea, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, ..., Government of Japan, Government of Meiji Japan, Governor (Japan), Greater Tokyo Area, Gunma Prefecture, Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, Hachiōji, Tokyo, Haeju, Hamhung, Han system, Hōko Prefecture, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hokkaido, Honshu, Hsinchu, Hsinchu County, Hualien City, Hualien County, Huyện, Hwanghae Province, Hyōgo Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, International Organization for Standardization, Ishikawa Prefecture, ISO 3166, ISO 3166-2:JP, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Japanese archipelago, Jeonju, Junichiro Koizumi, Jurisdiction, Kagawa Prefecture, Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanazawa, Kangwon Province (North Korea), Kanji, Kansai region, Kantō region, Kaohsiung, Karafuto Prefecture, Karenkō Prefecture, Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Kōfu, Kobe, Korea under Japanese rule, Koror City, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kwantung Leased Territory, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Law enforcement in Japan, League of Nations mandate, Liaoning, List of capitals in Japan, List of Japanese prefectures by area, List of Japanese prefectures by GDP, List of Japanese prefectures by population, List of prefectural governors in Japan, List of prefecture songs of Japan, List of regions of Japan, List of towns in Japan, List of villages in Japan, Local Autonomy Act, Local ordinance, Louis Frédéric, Maebashi, Magong, Mainland Japan, Majuro, Manchukuo, Matsue, Matsuyama, Ehime, Meiji Restoration, Mie Prefecture, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Mito, Ibaraki, Miyagi Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Morioka, Iwate, Municipal mergers and dissolutions in Japan, Municipalities of Japan, Municipalities of Portugal, Nagano Prefecture, Nagano, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Nagoya, Naha, Nara Prefecture, Nara, Nara, Niigata Prefecture, Niigata, Niigata, North Chungcheong Province, North Gyeongsang Province, North Hamgyong Province, North Jeolla Province, North Pyongan Province, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Okinawa Prefecture, Osaka, Osaka Metropolis plan, Osaka Metropolis Plan referendum, 2015, Osaka Prefecture, Palikir, Penghu, Population density, Potsdam Declaration, Prefectural road, Prefecture, Prime Minister of Japan, Provinces of Japan, Provinces of Portugal, Public expenditure, Pyongyang, Qing dynasty, Ranam-guyok, Republic of China (1912–1949), Ryukyu Islands, Saga Prefecture, Saga, Saga, Saikaidō, Saipan, Saitama Prefecture, Saitama, Saitama, Sakhalin Oblast, Sapporo, Seat of local government, Sendai, Seoul, Shiga Prefecture, Shigefumi Matsuzawa, Shikoku, Shimane Prefecture, Shinchiku Prefecture, Shinjuku, Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Sinuiju, South Chungcheong Province, South Gyeongsang Province, South Hamgyong Province, South Jeolla Province, South Pacific Mandate, South Pyongan Province, Special wards of Tokyo, Subprefectures of Hokkaido, Subprefectures of Japan, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Taichū Prefecture, Taichung, Taihoku Prefecture, Tainan, Tainan Prefecture, Taipei, Taitō Prefecture, Taitung City, Taitung County, Taiwan under Japanese rule, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Takao Prefecture, Tax rate, Tōhoku region, Tōkaidō (region), Tōru Hashimoto, Telephone numbers in Japan, Tochigi Prefecture, Tokugawa shogunate, Tokushima Prefecture, Tokushima, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tokyo City, Tokyo Fire Department, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Tokyo Prefecture, Tottori Prefecture, Tottori, Tottori, Toyama Prefecture, Toyama, Toyama, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Tsu, Mie, Unicameralism, Unitary state, United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands, Utsunomiya, Wakayama Prefecture, Wakayama, Wakayama, Western Tokyo, World War II, Yamagata Aritomo, Yamagata Prefecture, Yamagata, Yamagata, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi Prefecture, Yokohama, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Expand index (206 more) »

Abolition of the han system

The in the Empire of Japan and its replacement by a system of prefectures in 1871 was the culmination of the Meiji Restoration begun in 1868, starting year of Meiji period (currently, there are 47 prefectures from Hokkaido to Okinawa in Japan).

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Administrative divisions of Japan

The bureaucratic administration of Japan is divided into three basic levels; national, prefectural, and municipal.

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Aichi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region.

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Aizu

is the westernmost of the three regions of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, the other two regions being Nakadōri in the central area of the prefecture and Hamadōri in the east.

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Akita Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of Japan.

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Akita, Akita

is the capital city of Akita Prefecture, Japan, and has been designated a core city since 1 April 1997.

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Albert Mosse

Isaac Albert Mosse (1 October 1846 – 31 May 1925) was a German judge and legal scholar.

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Aomori Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region.

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Aomori, Aomori

is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of northern Japan.

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Ōita Prefecture

is a prefecture on Kyushu region of Japan.

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Ōita, Ōita

is the capital city of Ōita Prefecture, located on the island of Kyushu, Japan.

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Ōtsu

is the capital city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

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Busan

Busan, formerly known as Pusan and now officially is South Korea's second most-populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.5 million inhabitants.

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Capital of Japan

The current de facto capital of Japan is Tokyo, with the seat of the Emperor, National Diet and many government organizations.

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Chūbu region

The, Central region, or Central Japan (中部日本) is a region in the middle of Honshū, Japan's main island.

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Chūgoku region

The, also known as the, is the westernmost region of Honshū, the largest island of Japan.

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Cheongju

Cheongju is the capital and largest city of North Chungcheong Province in South Korea.

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Chiba Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region, and the Greater Tokyo Area.

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Chiba, Chiba

, literally "Thousand(s) Leaves", is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Chuncheon

Chuncheon (formerly romanized as Chunchŏn; literally spring river) is the capital of Gangwon Province in South Korea.

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Circuit (administrative division)

A circuit was a historical political division of China and is a historical and modern administrative unit in Japan.

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Cities of Japan

A is a local administrative unit in Japan.

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Council of Local Authorities for International Relations

The Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR) is a Japanese governmental agency established in 1988 to support the international activities of local governments to strengthen international collaboration, particularly around local development and revitalization.

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Counties of the People's Republic of China

Counties, formally county-level divisions, are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in Provinces and Autonomous regions, and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banner, and City districts.

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County (Taiwan)

A county is an administrative division unit in Taiwan.

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Daegu

Daegu (대구, 大邱, literally 'large hill') formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the nation with over 2.5 million residents.

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Daejeon

Daejeon is South Korea's fifth-largest metropolis.

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Dalian

Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning Province, China.

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Dōshūsei

is a proposal to organize Japan into one circuit of Hokkaido (dō) and several new states (shū) that are each a combination of several prefectures.

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Direct election

Direct election is a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons, or political party that they desire to see elected.

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Districts of Japan

The is today a geographical and statistical unit comprising one or several rural municipalities in Japan.

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Districts of Portugal

The Districts of Portugal (Distritos de Portugal), are the most important first-level administrative subdivisions of mainland Portugal.

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Division of Korea

The division of Korea between North and South Korea occurred after World War II, ending the Empire of Japan's 35-year rule over Korea in 1945.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Education in Japan

Education in Japan is compulsory at the elementary and lower secondary levels.

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Ehime Prefecture

is a prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan.

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Ezo

is a Japanese name which historically referred to the lands to the north of the Japanese island of Honshu.

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Fief

A fief (feudum) was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty.

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Framing (social sciences)

In the social sciences, framing comprises a set of concepts and theoretical perspectives on how individuals, groups, and societies, organize, perceive, and communicate about reality.

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Fu (country subdivision)

Fu is a traditional administrative division of Chinese origin used in the East Asian cultural sphere, translated variously as commandery, prefecture, urban prefecture, or city.

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Fuhanken sanchisei

The was an administrative reorganization undertaken by the Meiji Government in 1868, during the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the Boshin War.

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Fukui Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island.

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Fukui, Fukui

is the capital city of Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

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Fukuoka

is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, situated on the northern shore of Japanese island Kyushu.

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Fukuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan on Kyūshū Island.

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Fukushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region.

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Fukushima, Fukushima

is the capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

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Gangwon Province, South Korea

Gangwon-do is a province of South Korea, with its capital at Chuncheon.

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Gifu

is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital.

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Gifu Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of central Japan.

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Government of Japan

The government of Japan is a constitutional monarchy in which the power of the Emperor is limited and is relegated primarily to ceremonial duties.

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Government of Meiji Japan

The was the government that was formed by politicians of the Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain in the 1860s.

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Governor (Japan)

In Japan, the is the highest ranking executive of a prefecture.

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Greater Tokyo Area

The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan, including the Tokyo Metropolis, as well as the prefecture of Yamanashi of the neighboring Chūbu region.

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Gunma Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region.

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Gwangju

Gwangju is the sixth largest city in South Korea.

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Gyeonggi Province

Gyeonggi-do (Hangul: 경기도) is the most populous province in South Korea.

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Hachiōji, Tokyo

is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.

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Haeju

Haeju is a city located in South Hwanghae Province near Haeju Bay in North Korea.

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Hamhung

Hamhŭng (Hamhŭng-si) is North Korea's second largest city, and the capital of South Hamgyŏng Province.

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Han system

The or domain is the Japanese historical term for the estate of a warrior after the 12th century or of a daimyō in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912).

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Hōko Prefecture

was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during the Japanese occupation from 1895 until 1945.

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Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu - the largest island of Japan.

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Hiroshima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshu island.

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Hokkaido

(), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Hsinchu

Hsinchu officially known as Hsinchu City, is a provincial city in northern Taiwan.

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Hsinchu County

Hsinchu County is a county in north-western Taiwan.

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Hualien City

Hualien City is a county-controlled city and the county seat of Hualien County, Taiwan.

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Hualien County

Hualien County has the largest area of all counties in Taiwan, and is located on the island's mountainous eastern coast.

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Huyện

On the Second Tier, Vietnam is divided into 713 units.

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Hwanghae Province

Hwanghae (Hwanghae-do) was one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon.

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Hyōgo Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshu island.

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Ibaraki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan, located in the Kantō region.

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International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.

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Ishikawa Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island.

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ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states).

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ISO 3166-2:JP

ISO 3166-2:JP is the entry for Japan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g.provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Iwate Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese archipelago

The is the group of islands that forms the country of Japan, and extends roughly from northeast to southwest along the northeastern coast of the Eurasia mainland, washing upon the northwestern shores of the Pacific Ocean.

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Jeonju

Jeonju is the 16th largest city in South Korea and the capital of North Jeolla Province.

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Junichiro Koizumi

is a Japanese politician who was the 56th Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006.

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Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak") is the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice within a defined field of responsibility, e.g., Michigan tax law.

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Kagawa Prefecture

is the smallest prefecture of Japan (by area).

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Kagoshima

is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture at the south western tip of the island of Kyushu in Japan, and the largest city in the prefecture by some margin.

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Kagoshima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu.

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Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture located in Kantō region of Japan.

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Kanazawa

is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kangwon Province (North Korea)

Kangwon Province (Kangwŏndo) is a province of North Korea, with its capital at Wŏnsan.

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Kanji

Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.

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Kansai region

The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū.

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Kantō region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung City (Hokkien POJ: Ko-hiông; Hakka: Kô-hiùng; old names: Takao, Takow, Takau) is a special municipality located in southern-western Taiwan and facing the Taiwan Strait.

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Karafuto Prefecture

, commonly called South Sakhalin, was the Japanese administrative division corresponding to Japanese territory on southern Sakhalin island from 1905 to 1945.

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Karenkō Prefecture

was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during the Japanese rule.

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Kōchi

is the capital city of Kōchi Prefecture located on the island of Shikoku in Japan.

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Kōchi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the south coast of Shikoku.

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Kōfu

is the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan.

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Kobe

is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Korea under Japanese rule

Korea under Japanese rule began with the end of the short-lived Korean Empire in 1910 and ended at the conclusion of World War II in 1945.

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Koror City

Koror City is the largest city in Palau, home to about half of the country's population.

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Kumamoto

is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan.

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Kumamoto Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu.

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Kwantung Leased Territory

The Kwantung Leased Territory was a Russian-leased territory (1898–1905), then a Japanese-leased territory (1905–1945) in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula (遼東半島) in the Republic of China that existed from 1898 to 1945.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Kyoto Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of the island of Honshu.

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Kyushu

is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.

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Law enforcement in Japan

Law enforcement in Japan is provided by the Prefectural Police under the oversight of the National Police Agency or NPA.

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League of Nations mandate

A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League of Nations.

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Liaoning

Liaoning is a province of China, located in the northeast of the country.

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List of capitals in Japan

A prefectural capital is a city where a prefectural government and assembly is located.

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List of Japanese prefectures by area

Figures here are according to the official estimates of Japan.

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List of Japanese prefectures by GDP

This is a list of Japanese prefectures by GDP.

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List of Japanese prefectures by population

This is a list of Japanese prefectures by population.

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List of prefectural governors in Japan

This is a list of current governors of the prefectures of Japan.

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List of prefecture songs of Japan

This is a list of Prefecture songs of Japan.

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List of regions of Japan

The regions of Japan are not official administrative units, but have been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts.

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List of towns in Japan

A town (町; chō or machi) is a local administrative unit in Japan.

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List of villages in Japan

A is a local administrative unit in Japan.

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Local Autonomy Act

The, passed by the House of Representatives and the House of Peers on March 28, 1947 and promulgated as Law No.

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Local ordinance

A local ordinance is a law usually found in a code of laws for a political division smaller than a state or nation, i.e., a local government such as a municipality, county, parish, prefecture, etc.

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Louis Frédéric

Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, also known as Louis Frédéric or Louis-Frédéric (1923–1996), was a French scholar, art historian, writer and editor.

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Maebashi

is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan.

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Magong

Magong, formerly romanized as Makung, is a county-controlled city and seat of Penghu, Taiwan.

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Mainland Japan

is a term to distinguish the area of Japan from its outlying territories.

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Majuro

Majuro (Marshallese: Mājro) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

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Manchukuo

Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia from 1932 until 1945.

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Matsue

is the capital city of Shimane Prefecture located in Chūgoku region of the main island of Honshu.

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Matsuyama, Ehime

is the capital city of Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan and also Shikoku's largest city, with a population of 516,459 as of December 1, 2014.

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Meiji Restoration

The, also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

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Mie Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan, which is part of the Kansai region on the main Honshu island.

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Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

The is a cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Japan.

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Mito, Ibaraki

is the capital city of Ibaraki Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan.

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Miyagi Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan.

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Miyazaki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan on the island of Kyushu.

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Miyazaki, Miyazaki

is the capital city of Miyazaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Morioka, Iwate

is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan.

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Municipal mergers and dissolutions in Japan

can take place within one municipality or between multiple municipalities and are required to be based upon consensus.

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Municipalities of Japan

Japan has three levels of government: national, prefectural, and municipal.

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Municipalities of Portugal

The municipality (município or concelho) is the second-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution.

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Nagano Prefecture

is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshu.

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Nagano, Nagano

is the capital city of Nagano Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan.

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Nagasaki

() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Nagasaki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu.

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Nagoya

is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan.

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Naha

is the capital city of Okinawa Prefecture, the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Nara Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Nara, Nara

is the capital city of Nara Prefecture located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Niigata Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Chūbu region of Japan.

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Niigata, Niigata

is the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture located in the Chūbu region of Japan.

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North Chungcheong Province

North Chungcheong Province, officially Chungcheongbuk-do, is a province in the centre of South Korea.

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North Gyeongsang Province

North Gyeongsang Province (경상북도; RR: Gyeongsangbuk-do), also known as Gyeongbuk, is a province in eastern South Korea.

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North Hamgyong Province

North Hamgyong Province (Hamgyŏngbukdo) is the northernmost province of North Korea.

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North Jeolla Province

North Jeolla Province or Jeollabuk-do (전라북도; 全羅北道; Jeollabuk-do) is a province in the southwest of South Korea.

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North Pyongan Province

North Pyongan Province (Phyŏnganbukto;, also spelled North P'yŏngan), written before 1925 in English as Yeng Byen) is a province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former P'yŏng'an Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea. Its capital is Sinŭiju. In 2002, Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region—near the city of Sinuiju—was established as a separately governed Special Administrative Region.

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Okayama

is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan.

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Okayama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main island of Honshu.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Osaka Metropolis plan

The or Osaka Metropolis is a plan to transform Osaka Prefecture from a fu, an urban prefecture, into a to, a metropolis.

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Osaka Metropolis Plan referendum, 2015

A referendum on the implementation of the Osaka Metropolis plan was held in Osaka on 17 May 2015.

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Osaka Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Kansai region on Honshu, the main island of Japan.

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Palikir

Palikir is a town with about 4,600 people and the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean.

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Penghu

The Penghu or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Potsdam Declaration

The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II.

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Prefectural road

in Japan are roads usually planned, numbered and maintained by the government of the respective prefecture (-to, -dō, -fu or -ken), independent of other prefectures – as opposed to national roads (kokudō), which in legal terms include national expressways (kōsoku jidōsha kokudō), and municipal roads (shichōsondō).

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Prefecture

A prefecture (from the Latin Praefectura) is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect.

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Prime Minister of Japan

The is the head of government of Japan.

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Provinces of Japan

were administrative divisions before the modern prefecture system was established, when the islands of Japan were divided into tens of kuni (国, countries), usually known in English as provinces.

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Provinces of Portugal

The term "provinces" (províncias) has been used throughout history to identify regions of continental Portugal.

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Public expenditure

Public expenditure is spending made by the government of a country on collective needs and wants such as pension, provision, infrastructure, etc.

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Pyongyang

Pyongyang, or P'yŏngyang, is the capital and largest city of North Korea.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Ranam-guyok

Ranam-guyŏk is a district of the 7 kuyŏk that constitute Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China was a sovereign state in East Asia, that occupied the territories of modern China, and for part of its history Mongolia and Taiwan.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of islands annexed by Japan that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost.

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Saga Prefecture

is a prefecture in the northwest part of the island of Kyushu, Japan.

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Saga, Saga

is the capital city of Saga Prefecture, located on the island of Kyushu, Japan.

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Saikaidō

is a Japanese geographical term.

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Saipan

Saipan (formerly in Spanish: Saipán) is the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.

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Saitama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region.

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Saitama, Saitama

is the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

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Sakhalin Oblast

Sakhalin Oblast (p) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East.

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Sapporo

is the fifth largest city of Japan by population, and the largest city on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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Seat of local government

In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre, (in the UK or Australia) a guildhall, a Rathaus (German), or (more rarely) a municipal building, is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality.

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Sendai

is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, the largest city in the Tōhoku region, and the second largest city north of Tokyo.

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Seoul

Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.

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Shiga Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan, which forms part of the Kansai region in the western part of Honshu island.

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Shigefumi Matsuzawa

is a Japanese politician and a current member of the House of Councillors for the Kanagawa at-large district in the Diet of Japan.

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Shikoku

is the smallest (long and between wide) and least populous (3.8 million) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu.

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Shimane Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main Honshu island.

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Shinchiku Prefecture

was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during the Japanese era.

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Shinjuku

is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan.

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Shizuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.

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Shizuoka, Shizuoka

is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area.

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Sinuiju

Sinŭiju; Sinŭiju-si, known before 1925 in English as Yeng Byen City) is a city in North Korea which faces Dandong, China across the international border of the Yalu River. It is the capital of North P'yŏngan province. Part of the city is included in the Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region, which was established in 2002 to experiment with introducing a market economy.

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South Chungcheong Province

South Chungcheong Province (충청남도, Chungcheongnam-do, literally "Chungcheong Southern Province"), abbreviated as Chungnam, is a province in the west of South Korea.

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South Gyeongsang Province

South Gyeongsang Province (translit) is a province in the southeast of South Korea.

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South Hamgyong Province

South Hamgyong Province (Hamgyŏngnamdo) is a province of North Korea.

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South Jeolla Province

South Jeolla Province or Jeollanam-do is a province in the southwest of South Korea.

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South Pacific Mandate

The South Pacific Mandate was a League of Nations mandate given to the Empire of Japan by the League of Nations following World War I. The South Pacific Mandate consisted of islands in the north Pacific Ocean that had been part of German New Guinea within the German colonial empire until they were occupied by Japan during World War I. Japan governed the islands under the mandate as part of the Japanese colonial empire until World War II, when the United States captured the islands.

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South Pyongan Province

South Pyongan Province (Phyŏngannamdo) is a province of North Korea.

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Special wards of Tokyo

The are 23 municipalities that together make up the core and the most populous part of Tokyo, Japan.

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Subprefectures of Hokkaido

Hokkaido Prefecture had 14 branch offices called 支庁 (shichō) in Japanese, which is often translated in English as subprefectures.

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Subprefectures of Japan

are a Japanese form of self-government which focuses on local issues below the prefectural level.

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Tachikawa, Tokyo

is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.

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Taichū Prefecture

was one of the administrative divisions of Japanese Taiwan.

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Taichung

Taichung, officially known as Taichung City, is a special municipality located in center-western Taiwan.

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Taihoku Prefecture

was an administrative division of Taiwan created in 1920, during Japanese rule.

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Tainan

Tainan (Hokkien POJ: Tâi-lâm), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality of Taiwan, facing the Formosan Strait or Taiwan Strait in the west and south.

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Tainan Prefecture

was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during the Japanese rule.

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Taipei

Taipei, officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China, "ROC").

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Taitō Prefecture

was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during the Japanese rule.

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Taitung City

Taitung City is a county-controlled city and the county seat of Taitung County, Taiwan.

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Taitung County

Taitung County is the third largest county in Taiwan, located on the island's eastern coast.

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Taiwan under Japanese rule

Taiwan under Japanese rule is the period between 1895 and 1945 in which the island of Taiwan (including the Penghu Islands) was a dependency of the Empire of Japan, after Qing China lost the First Sino-Japanese War to Japan and ceded Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

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Takamatsu, Kagawa

is a city located in central Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan, and is the capital city of the prefectural government.

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Takao Prefecture

was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during the Japanese rule.

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Tax rate

In a tax system, the tax rate is the ratio (usually expressed as a percentage) at which a business or person is taxed.

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Tōhoku region

The, Northeast region, or Northeast Japan consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Tōkaidō (region)

The is a Japanese geographical term.

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Tōru Hashimoto

is a Japanese politician and lawyer.

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Telephone numbers in Japan

Telephone numbers in Japan consist of an area code, an exchange number, and a subscriber number.

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Tochigi Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Kantō region of Japan.

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Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the, was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868.

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Tokushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island.

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Tokushima, Tokushima

is the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku island in Japan.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Tokyo City

was a municipality in Japan and part of Tokyo-fu which existed from 1 May 1889 until its merger with its prefecture on 1 July 1943.

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Tokyo Fire Department

The is a fire department headquartered in Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

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Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

The serves as the police force of Tokyo Metropolis.

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Tokyo Prefecture

is a former Japanese government entity which existed between 1869 and 1943.

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Tottori Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region.

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Tottori, Tottori

is the capital city of Tottori Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan.

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Toyama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Hokuriku region on the main Honshu island.

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Toyama, Toyama

is the capital city of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, located on the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Chūbu region on central Honshū, about north of the city of Nagoya and northwest of Tokyo.

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Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia (western Pacific) administered by the United States from 1947 to 1986.

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Tsu, Mie

is the capital city of Mie Prefecture, Japan.

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Unicameralism

In government, unicameralism (Latin uni, one + camera, chamber) is the practice of having one legislative or parliamentary chamber.

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Unitary state

A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate.

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United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands

The was the government in Okinawa, Japan from 1945 to 1950, whereupon it was replaced by the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands.

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Utsunomiya

is the capital and largest city of Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan.

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Wakayama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshū island.

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Wakayama, Wakayama

is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Western Tokyo

Western Tokyo, also known as the, or, consists of the part of Tokyo Prefecture to the west of the 23 special wards.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yamagata Aritomo

Prince, also known as Yamagata Kyōsuke, was a Japanese field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and twice Prime Minister of Japan.

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Yamagata Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of Japan.

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Yamagata, Yamagata

is the capital city of Yamagata Prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan.

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Yamaguchi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan in the Chūgoku region of the main island of Honshu.

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Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi

is the capital city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

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Yamanashi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the main island of Honshu.

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Yokohama

, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.

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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Ю́жно-Сахали́нск, literally "Southern Sakhalin") is a city in Sakhalin island, and the administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan

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