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A city (市, shi) is a local administrative unit in Japan with a population of at least 50,000 of which at least 60% of households must be established in a central urban area, and at least 60% of households must be employed in commerce, industry or other urban occupations.
The Meiji government established the sub-prefecture (郡, -gun) as an administrative unit. [1] In 1888 (Meiji 21), the sub-prefecture as a form of self-government was officially recognized as more general than civic corporations like cities, towns and villages. [2] Certain prefectures of Japan are now, or once were, divided into subprefectures ...
List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
This is a list of Japan's major islands, traditional regions, and subregions, going from northeast to southwest. [13] [14] The eight traditional regions are marked in bold. Hokkaidō (the island and its archipelago) Honshū. Tōhoku region (northern part) Kantō region (eastern part) Nanpō Islands (part of Tokyo Metropolis) Chūbu region ...
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When the ancient ritsuryō districts were reactivated as administrative units in 1878, Tokyo was subdivided into 15 [urban] districts (-ku) and initially six [rural] districts (-gun; nine after the Tama transfer from Kanagawa in 1893, eight after the merger of East Tama and South Toshima into Toyotama in 1896).
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