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.
National health, welfare, and education rules determine much of the government's outlays, for example, and subsidies from the central government come with little discretionary power.Elsewhere, many smaller prefectures are in a similar bind.
Surrounded by two rivers, the thickly forested Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea, Thrace, which comprises three smaller prefectures, has its roots in the ancient kingdom of the same name, which also extended into Bulgaria, Turkey, eastern portions of Serbia and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.
The list also includes Fukuoka on the south-western island of Kyushu, the small southern prefecture of Okinawa and two cities in Niigata and Fukui prefectures.
Kagawa, smallest ken (prefecture) of Shikoku, western Japan.
Endless projects like ultramodern airports for small farming prefectures and an ever-expanding but money-losing bullet train network, have cost Japan a half trillion dollars during two years.
Conditional on individual age and occupation, overall geographic inequalities of mortality were relatively small across prefectures in both sexes, with slightly larger geographic inequality among women than men (table 2).
TOTTORI prefecture on the Sea of Japan is known for its vast sand dunes and for having the smallest prefectural population in Japan, of which about one in six lives on a farm.
Across Fukushima and neighboring prefectures, small amounts of cesium-134 and cesium-137, isotopes with half-lives of 2 and 30 years respectively, lie on the ground.
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.
