Sentence examples for this prefecture from inspiring English sources

Sake is still consumed widely in this prefecture of glistening rice fields and rolling hills that fronts on the Sea of Japan.

This prefecture of 57 islands (17 uninhabited) has a subtropical climate that sustains more than 3,000 varieties of plants and reefs with 260 species of coral.

For women all over this country, Moeko Tanaka, a former campaign worker who successfully sued the governor of this prefecture for sexually molesting her and won, remains a heroine without a face.

And the local government of Yamanashi put up close to $200 million to subsidize the test center to ensure that as big a piece of the action as possible came to this prefecture of 895,000 people.

"Probably every taxi driver in this prefecture knows the way to Nichia," says one cab driver about the prefecture's third-largest employer.

None of this is unique to this prefecture.

The findings of this prefecture-wide study might not represent the status of nationwide preparedness for pandemic influenza in the entire primary healthcare sector of Japan.

I've discussed this with the prefecture, with the [France terre d'asile, a French child protection agency].

This quietish prefecture in the west of Japan may not look much like the English county of Kent, but grievous war-ravaged destruction always looks exactly like grievous war-ravaged destruction, and so one did illustrate and inform the other.

*Data in this table originate from the prefecture case database.

In Japan's agrarian Oita prefecture, this amazing dog helps out this owner by herding cattle -- that's right, cows!