Sentence examples for surrounding prefecture from inspiring English sources

"The people around Lagan have proposed moving elsewhere," said Lu Yuanru, chief of forestry for the surrounding prefecture.

There it is spearheading a move, already approved by the Diet, to merge the city of Osaka with the surrounding prefecture.

He sat alongside his political ally, Hideaki Omura, who on the same day thrashed his rivals for the governorship of the surrounding prefecture of Aichi, home to Toyota.

The city and its surrounding prefecture, Aichi, also lie at the heart of a region that epitomises Japan's culture of monozukuri, or "making things", and not all of those things end up as parts in Toyota cars.

Because these hospitals charge for services on a sliding economic scale and are the reference centers for their respective regions, they are visited by people of all socio-economic levels from the town and surrounding prefecture and thus, have large catchment areas.

Several hours earlier his most implacable opponents had fired miniature missiles into army bases in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures.

Nearly half a million people have been evacuated in Miyagi and surrounding prefectures, with thousands taking refuge in makeshift shelters.

Minuscule amounts of radioactive iodine were also detected in the water supply in Tokyo and its five surrounding prefectures.

Then, in 1998, TT Net began offering telephone services to households in Tokyo and eight surrounding prefectures, using a high-speed optical fiber network laid alongside the electric company's cables and distribution lines.

The capital and surrounding prefectures, where so many companies, government agencies and news media outlets are located, account for about one-third of the country's gross domestic product.

A government committee gave warning this summer that there was a 70% chance that a big earthquake between 6.7 and 7.2 in intensity would hit Tokyo or surrounding prefectures in the next 30 years (a wide range, it is true).