Sentence examples for prefectural official from inspiring English sources

When radiation above European safety limits was found in tea from Shizuoka in June, a prefectural official asked the retailer, Radishbo-ya, to keep quiet so as not to harm local growers.The crisis of confidence in Japanese authority is still at the seedling stage.

In Niigata prefecture north of Tokyo, authorities on Tuesday started culling about 310,000 chickens at a farm in the village of Sekikawa after 40 birds were found dead from H5 bird flu, a prefectural official told Reuters by telephone.

Shigeru Watanabe, a prefectural official who oversees forest maintenance in Fukushima, believes that if forests are left alone "people won't feel safe living in these areas".

"I am from Kagoshima prefecture, where a former governor collapsed and the prefectural officials hid it for some time," said Yoshiko Sano, 48, a homemaker who was hurrying through Ginza and who described herself as a typical Japanese.

Under pressure from these groups and prefectural officials, the Construction Ministry made a rare concession, agreeing to hold public hearings to explain the dam and hear residents' concerns.

"We hear from Iwate prefectural officials that Takata High School will be rebuilt in Takata at some point in the future," said Sasaki, the team's manager.

Prefectural officials say that since the discovery of tainted rice, they have tested rice from 4,975 farms in Onami and 21 other communities mostly in the relatively contaminated areas to the northwest of the plant.

In order to carry out the campaign, the provincial government assumed a vetoing system: the prefectural officials who did not complete tasks that the provincial government assigned on time would automatically fail their annual assessment.

In order to simplify our model, we assume that the relationship between the provincial government and the prefectural (county) government replicates that between the central government and the provincial government, where the provincial government has already held a strong position both in rewarding and punishing prefectural officials.

Prefectural officials want more to be done.

"The first priority [for prefectural officials] is to clean stuff up and keep transport routes open.