The students who returned to school in Miyagi Prefecture all received UNICEF school bags filled with stationery and supplies.
The historical regions were replaced by nine prefectures (banovine), all drafted deliberately to cut across the lines of traditional regions.
Thus, even 40 years ago, people in Chiba preferred drinking sake brewed in other prefectures in Japan over local sake (National Tax Agency HP: http://www.nta.go.jp/kohyo/tokei/kokuzeicho/jikeiretsu/01.htm).jp/kohyo/tokei/kokuzeicho/jikeiretsu/01.htm
By applying data for multiple prefectures over time to prefecture-level population statistics, we estimated population loss from the pandemic to be the difference between expected population (using the prepandemic trajectory) and observed population (using the postpandemic trajectory) (17, 21, 22 ).
But the future of Nagoya and Aichi, says one foreign businessman, depends on whether Toyota, which still dominates its prefecture, "continues to take over the world".
Destruction and healing Much of the destruction is still visible in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where over 3,000 people died and nearly 900 are still reported missing.
Coverage rates of population within 90 minutes of these hospitals were over 88.9% for all prefectures, with 33 out of 47 prefectures having rates over 99%.
That oversight helps explain the recent mass protests against unwanted dams, airports, roads and bridges that have suddenly broken out all over the country.In Shiga prefecture, which borders the Kansai city of Kyoto, residents want a referendum on plans for a new airport near Lake Biwa, a popular tourist haunt.
After all, over half the governors of Japan's 47 prefectures are still ex-bureaucrats.
