Sentence examples for western prefecture from inspiring English sources

The head of the United Nations human rights office in the western prefecture of Duékoué, Jean-Marie Kalama, confirmed the clashes around Toulépleu.

It left from Takahama on the Sea of Japan, in the western prefecture of Fukui, about 50 miles north of Osaka, not from the town of the same name on the Pacific Ocean in Aichi Prefecture.

As the convoy sped through rain in the western prefecture of Yamaguchi, one of the Ferrari drivers, trying to change lanes, struck the median and spun out of control.

Last month, a candidate backing an antinuclear agenda made a strong showing in a governor's race in a western prefecture that was considered a conservative stronghold, surprising the political elite.

In March, he was responsible for one of two rulings on vote disparities by a higher court in the western prefecture of Hiroshima that invalidated some outcomes of national lower house elections in December — the first time a Japanese court had thrown out election results for reasons of voting inequality.

Second, the distribution of psychiatric beds among the 47 prefectures was uneven with some areas of having more than others: with the western prefectures having more beds than the eastern and northern prefectures [ 30].

A small rival, Onoto, which like Ozaki Shoji is based in the south-western prefecture of Okayama, seems to be having a harder time adapting.

In Japan, the body of a 90-year-old man who went missing while checking a persimmon orchard in the south-western prefecture of Tottori was found in an irrigation canal.

Human rights violations, including the kidnapping of children, continue to be prevalent, particularly in the north-western prefectures.

For example, the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion (HERP) (2002, 2008a) has been continuously validating methods by comparing observed and synthetic strong ground motions and seismic intensities for, e.g., the 2000 Western Tottori Prefecture earthquake (MJ 7.3) and the 2005 West Off Fukuoka Prefecture earthquake (MJ 7.0).

The epicenter of the quake, with a magnitude of 7.3, was in western Tottori prefecture, 360 miles west of here.