There are 43 prefectures in Japan.

The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, in Katsuyama, Fukui.

Tulips are our prefecture's official flower.

Fossilized horseshoe crab, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.

We have arrived at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.

And it won't be just residents of Shiga Prefecture.

It is not just the problem of evacuating residents of Shiga Prefecture that worries Mikazuki.

The largest city on Hokkaido is its capital, Sapporo, which is also its only ordinance designated city.

A bridge and road in Minami Aso township, east of Kumamoto.

On top of this, the announcement below was posted on the Fukushima Prefecture website

They said that while local prefectures may themselves coordinate such collection of supplies, at the moment the prefectures are in a state of confusion.

KT The decision to construct a US military base in Henoko and Oura Bay in Okinawa Prefecture.

A bridge and road destroyed by a landslide in Minami Aso township, east of Kumamoto.

Regions and prefectures The island is nominally divided into five regions and contains 34 prefectures, including metropolitan Tokyo.

Lake Okutama, on the Tama River near Yamanashi Prefecture, is Tokyo's largest lake.

Local residents of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa have long opposed the presence of American military bases there.

Out of 160,000 evacuees from Fukushima, nearly 63,000 people were evacuated outside of the prefecture itself.

The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama, Fukui, is built into a hillside, and is designed to look like a dinosaur egg.

The prefectural police is trying to find out what conflict took place between the father and daughter following the family dinner.

Thus, in the area of Tochigi Prefecture, the traffic jam spanned for 43 kilometres, while in Kanagawa Prefecture, it was 33 kilometres.

As of 2017, approximately 40,000 Fukushima citizens still reside outside of their home prefecture.

Fujioka Yoshihide, a Communist member of the Nagano prefectural assembly got into hot water for criticizing Abe's appearance on Twitter.

The US has declared that the Senkaku Islands (administered by the Okinawa Prefecture when it was returned to Japan in 1972) are covered by the US Japan security treaty.

The US has declared that the Senkaku Islands (administered by the Okinawa Prefecture when it was returned to Japan in 1972) are covered by the US Japan security treaty.

Image widely shared on social media. One resident of Shiga Prefecture tweeted that he couldn't understand the need to restart the nuclear power plants.

New Jersey native Taylor Cazella currently lives in the southern end of Mie Prefecture, Japan and works as an Assistant Language Teacher at a local high school.

A Lille court ruled there was no legal basis for expelling the people running the 72 makeshift shops, but said the Calais prefect's concerns were totally understandable.

When a massive tsunami on March 11, 2011, set off a nuclear crisis in coastal Fukushima prefecture, 54 nuclear reactors were shut down across Japan.

Prefectures were gradually merged to reduce the number to 37 by 1881 a few were then divided to give a total of 45 by 1885.

The Chuetsu High School pitcher pitched a no hitter until there was one out in the bottom of the 9th.

The tweet above alludes to one of Japan's most famous poems, Strong in the Rain by Kenji Miyazawa, a poet and social activist from the Tohoku prefecture of Iwate.

As a result, the public is paying increasing attention to the newly created Japan Restoration Party (JRP) and its populist leader, Osaka City Mayor Toru Hashimoto, a former governor of Osaka prefecture and the son of a minor Yakuza (mafioso).

Fearing long term health effects of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, some residents in mainland Japan have made the decision to uproot their families and move to other prefectures or countries.

Kobe Shimbun noted that a year ago, Wada Yuichiro, a member of the Hyogo Prefectural (state) Assembly representing a ward in Kobe, had also complained to the school principal, Wada Magohiro about the selection of the textbook.

Five years earlier, following a large earthquake and tsunami, a series of explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate from the Futaba region of Fukushima Prefecture.

Kobe Shimbun noted that Nada Middle School's new textbook had been approved by Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education for use in schools, although Nada Middle School was the only school to use the textbook.

After Macchako's family lost their house in that very conflict, they stayed with relatives for several days. After that, they moved to an acquaintance's house in the mountains of the rural and remote Shimane Prefecture, where they lived as evacuees until the end of the war.