Tokyo metropolis is one of three prefecture-level urban administrative units in Japan, the other two being Ōsaka and Kyōto.
The personal transformations are more subtle outside Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the three prefectures that have suffered the most.
Iwai embodies the spirit of Tohoku — the northeastern region that includes the three prefectures hardest hit by the quake: Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.
A special focus is on the three prefectures most affected by the March 2011 disasters: Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, where Aizu-Wakamatsu is.
Three prefectures (ken) bordering it Saitama on the north, Chiba on the east, and Kanagawa on the south may be said to make up the remainder of the complex, but there is more than one definition of Greater Tokyo, and large numbers of people live beyond the four prefectures and commute to work in the region.
Actually, there are not two areas for two prefectures but 14 areas for three prefectures in all.
This area is included in the region covered by three prefectures; Aichi, Gifu, and Mie.
All the money that they spend will be donated to the three prefectures - Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima.
Then the commodity flows among the areas in three prefectures were estimated by the gravity-RAS method for each sector.
Here we extend the IOT to cover the three prefectures of Aichi, Gifu, and Mie (see Fig. 1).
In this paper, we recompiled three prefectures' IOTs to a MRIOT to discuss the regional structure of the Nagoya metropolitan area.
