It was a giant quake in the waters off Miyagi; off the Sanriku coast in Iwate Prefecture to the north; off Fukushima Prefecture to the south.
The land rises along the eastern border with Ibaraki prefecture to Mount Yamizo and associated mountains.
The number of representatives differs from prefecture to prefecture by population — but it doesn't differ quite drastically enough.
The fourth candidate, Taro Aso, has won none of the local votes, losing even his prefecture to Mr. Koizumi.
He stood down as governor of Osaka prefecture to run for mayor in order to achieve just that.
Then, at the Liberation, he delivered the prefecture to the Resistance, and began a spectacular rise in the postwar French bureaucracy as an "haut fonctionnaire".
The UN press office said on Wednesday a team led by the peacekeeping mission in CAR, known as Minusca, had travelled to Kemo prefecture to investigate.
In addition to ninety-minute corporate sessions, Terai makes a yearly trip to Iwaki, a city in Fukushima Prefecture, to run a rui-katsu session with earthquake survivors.
In Osaka, Japan's second most populous region, the governor, Toru Hashimoto, aims to merge the city and the prefecture to give it Tokyo-like economic clout.
The contaminated spinach was found one prefecture to the south, in Ibaraki Prefecture, on farms 60 to 90 miles from the plants.
"I went to Aba Prefecture to see it for myself," Mr. Locke said in a brief statement in response to questions from The New York Times.
