Sentence examples for prefectural areas from inspiring English sources

If elected Koike would be the first female governor of Tokyo, and only the seventh woman to run one of Japan's 47 prefectural areas.

Norway considers giving mountain to Finland as 100th birthday present Voters in Tokyo will go to the polls this weekend to settle a contest between 21 candidates, including Yuriko Koike, a graduate of Cairo University, who would be the first female governor of Tokyo, and only the seventh woman to run one of Japan's 47 prefectural areas.

Figure 8 shows the muddy trace of the debris flow on buildings in one of the prefectural housing areas.

For the case of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake, shallow normal-faulting earthquakes abruptly began to occur in the Ibaraki/Fukushima prefectural boundary area (coastal region around 37 °N) (e.g., Kato et al. 2011) and the outer-rise region along the Japan Trench.

Depending on their geographical range and the size of the population served they are distinguished as follows: Local, with an area of responsibility up to 50.000 residents Prefectural, serving an area up to 200.000 residents.

The Japan Public Health Centre-based prospective study (JPHC study) consists of two cohort, Cohort I and Cohort II that comprise five and six prefectural public health centre areas, respectively.

Cohort I covered five prefectural public health center (PHC) areas and Cohort II covered six PHC areas.

A number of copies are intended for municipal and prefectural authorities in the area stricken by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, silent encouragement from an able and visionary politician, himself a hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivor.

The heavy damage including collapse of residential houses was concentrated in "Sandwich Area" between Prefectural Route 28 and Akitsu River.

Small resorts of hot spring and prefectural roads within the area 3 km from the crater were closed by local government.

One reason for the omission was very complicated pluralistic governance of the Owakudani sightseeing area; the land owner was a private company, the trekking paths in and around the area were managed by the municipal government, the parking lot and road to the area were managed by the prefectural government, and the ropeway and bus to the area were run by two transportation companies.