Sentences with word «prefecture»

A prefecture is an administrative division or region within a country, often used in countries like Japan and France. It is similar to a state or province, but typically with smaller geographical boundaries. Full definition
The good news is anyone near the Japanese prefecture of Aichi will be able to follow Luffy and co.'s exploits via a new theme park attraction that runs from March 20 to June 27!
Residents check an earthquake - damaged house in Sukagawa city on March 11, in the Fukushima prefecture in Japan.
The current one hit 25 miles underwater off coast of Miyagi prefecture, jolting buildings in Tokyo, 207 miles away, for over a minute, say early reports.
This weekend, I did a photo shoot at Zushi beach in Kanagawa prefecture, and my team and I were blessed with the most perfect beach weather.
Born in 1973 in Aichi prefecture in Japan, Riusuke Fukahori currently lives and works in Yokohama.
Hata was first elected as a House of Representatives member from Nagano prefecture in 1969 and served as agriculture minister, finance minister and foreign minister between 1988 and 1994.
The 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon will be held at the Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Chiba prefecture from January 13 to 15, 2012.
Kosuke Morita, the leader of the Riken team, smiles as he points to a board displaying the new atomic element 113 during a press conference in Wako, Saitama prefecture on December 31, 2015.
Farther from the epicentre, the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J - PARC), south of Sendai on the coastline of Ibaraki prefecture, has been shut down.
Orchids are the most species - rich gardening plants in the world, and in the Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, three kinds of Gastrodia orchids grow naturally.
About Studio Saizensen Based in the Saitama prefecture of Japan, Studio Saizensen («In the Front Line») was founded in 1997 as a developer of consumer games (including video games and card games) and a provider of 2 - D / 3 - D graphic design services.
The company said it has informed the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the governor of Ehime prefecture and the mayor of Ikata city of its decision.
Meanwhile, Yamashita says support for the project is building among local governments and neighboring prefectures as well as among national politicians.
The participants were recruited from Kwansei Gakuin University and the neighboring community of Hyogo prefecture in Japan.
The company is also developing a 92 megawatt solar plant — generating enough energy for over 30,000 households — on an abandoned golf course in Kagoshima prefecture.
In 1981, SAWA Yutaka presented the open - flowering variety found in Kochi prefecture as L. nigricans var.
The Japanese government has already made a voluntary donation of $ 2.3 million towards the centre, which will have offices in Osaka and in Shiga prefecture.
The Guadeloupe prefecture said one person was killed by a falling tree and at least two people were missing in a shipwreck.
A 10 - year - old boy suffered a minor injury but the exact cause was unclear, an Okinawa prefecture official told Reuters.
The resulting entity would control 70 percent of lending in the southern prefecture of Nagasaki.
The company is located in Hirosaki City, a small town in the rural Aomori prefecture.
Child maltreatment has been a focus in Wakayama prefecture following a high - profile case last year resulting in the death of a child in Wakayama City.
Japan will drill 16 shallow exploratory wells in deep waters off its coast, from Mie to Shizuoka prefectures, to determine the expanse and density of methane hydrate deposits.
The firm, based in Sanriku town in Japan's Iwate prefecture, posts details of its catches online in real time, offering consumers the chance to buy fish almost as soon as it is hauled from the sea.
Workers who commute to Toyama from other prefectures have been very satisfied with the LRT.
The announcement came after the governor of Fukui prefecture, Issei Nishikawa, said the dismantling the reactor should not be left to JAEA, which he regarded as incapable of safely carrying out the task alone.
Interviewing 27 city level employees at 15 different departments and 28 prefecture level employees at 9 different district level departments discovered that gaming takes up at least 30 percent of a government bureaucrat's time.
The Akita was first bred in the northern region of the island of Honshu in the Akita prefecture.
My studio is located in a town on the southern tip of Yamanashi prefecture, but it's only about 30 minutes from Suruga Bay by car in the direction of Shizuoka.
Iwate is the least populated but largest prefecture in Japan.
Set in Shimane prefecture — a place rich in history, culture and natural beauty — √ Letter revolves around the mystery of Fumino Aya, your old high school pen friend who went missing 15 years ago.
«We believe there'll be a competitive force within and also from outside Niigata prefecture,» Shuichi Sugahisa, director general at the FTC's Economic Affairs Bureau, said at a briefing.
China may lift an import ban imposed on 10 prefectures after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
[84] Party committees of «a province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the central government, city divided into districts, or autonomous prefecture [are] elected for a term of five years», and include full and alternate members.
One case was reported in Crete and the remaining four were reported from previously affected prefectures of northwestern Peloponnese.
To find out how much poliovirus still lives in the environment, virologist Hiromu Yoshida of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo and his colleagues tested samples of sewage and river water collected between October 1993 and September 1995 in the Toyama prefecture in central Japan.
Located by the shore in north eastern Yamaguchi prefecture, Higashi Ushirobata's rice terraces are arguably one of the most scenic terraces in Japan.
The flat - four will be built at the Subaru's new Oizumi plant in Gunma prefecture northwest of Tokyo.
These dogs were prevalent in Gifu prefecture.
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has launched Kumamoto Japan Earthquake Bitcoin Relief Fund to help victims of the disastrous earthquake that hit Kumamoto prefecture on Saturday.
But even when these requirements are met, the utilities still must gain approval from national and prefecture governments, which face continued public opposition to restoration of nuclear power.
Hokkaido is not only Japan's second largest island but also the northernmost prefecture, boasting dramatic mountains and natural hot springs.
Tobacco and alcohol use among drug users receiving methadone maintenance treatment: a cross-sectional study in a rural prefecture of Yunnan Province, Southwest China
Kyocera's first project, now under construction, is a 23 megawatt solar plant on a golf course in Kyoto prefecture.
Kashgar prefecture in Xinjiang, which is predominantly occupied by ethnic Uighurs, already uses IJOP regularly.
A tribunal in Lille earlier this month ordered the Pas - de-Calais prefecture to begin rubbish collection, install clean water points and identify and protect vulnerable or unaccompanied minors within the Jungle, acknowledging that the population had been «largely left to fend for themselves, with no protection from the state», amid living conditions «not suitable for anyone».
The whole process got its start during recent town supervisor Jeff Moran's first term, when he was asked by officials of the French prefecture to visit their community because it perceived a spiritual tie to Woodstock... and it was the host of a large festival (which this year hosted former Woodstock resident Bob Dylan as a headliner for an audience of 300,000 or so Europeans).
To see what comparable screening would find in a population not exposed to radiation, Takamura's team used the Fukushima survey protocol to examine 4365 children aged 3 to 18 from three widely separated prefectures.
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