Sentence examples for a small prefecture from inspiring English sources

Saga Prefecture is a small prefecture with an area of 2,439 km2 (place-of-residence 1,339 km), a population of 849,709, and is located in northwestern Kyushu in the western part of Japan.

"Okinawa is also like a small country prefecture in Japan, where political maneuvers -- particularly involving money -- are well known.

In addition to Tokyo and Osaka, relatively small prefectures such as Akita in the Tohoku region and Tottori in the Chugoku region, where the population density is less than 200 people per km2, also construct the frontier because this study introduced a VRS DEA model, and the DEEI is estimated in consideration of the difference in scale of such prefectures.

In our near 30-year friendship, Nick and I have eaten more raw fish than the population of a small coastal Japanese prefecture.

Mr. Iijima hails from a small town in Nagano prefecture, not anywhere close to Mr. Koizumi's home base of Yokosuka, and it is unusual for a politician to choose a secretary, the ultimate patronage apointee, from outside his district.

In Yame, a small city in Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu, the authorities said that a 70-year-old man was caught in a landslide while out inspecting his rice paddies, and that an 83-year-old woman died when her home was swallowed by mud.

Yanai grew up living above his parents' clothing store in a small town in Yamaguchi Prefecture in southwestern Japan.

A battle has raged for decades over one to be built in Kaminoseki, a small fishing town in the prefecture.

Uniqlo shares an origin with Japanese Ivy, as the founder Tadashi Yanai's father ran a small VAN shop in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

But as she spent more time in Didimoticho, a small town in the Thracian prefecture of Evros, she realized she was documenting an almost-unknown part of Greece.

Born Junko Istibashi in Miharu, a small agricultural town in Fukushima prefecture famous for its 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldh of seven cherryen whose fatree worked ashe printer.