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In Japan, a district (郡, gun) is composed of one or more rural municipalities (towns or villages) within a prefecture. Districts have no governing function, and are only used for geographic or statistical purposes such as mailing addresses. Cities are not part of districts. Historically, districts have at times functioned as an administrative ...
Map 1st district [changed 1] Okayama, ward of Kita-ku. Cities of Akaiwa and Bizen Districts of Kaga and Wake. 329,469 Ichiro Aisawa [13] LDP 2nd district [changed 1] Okayama, ward of Higashi-ku, Minami-ku, and Naka-ku. Cities of Setouchi and Tamano. 417,620 Takashi Yamashita [16] LDP 3rd district [changed 1]
In many contexts in Japan (government, media markets, sports, regional business or trade union confederations), regions are used that deviate from the above-mentioned common geographical 8-region division that is sometimes referred to as "the" regions of Japan in the English Wikipedia and some other English-language publications. Examples of ...
Under a set of 1888–1890 laws on local government [2] until the 1920s, each prefecture (then only 3 -fu and 42 -ken; Hokkaidō and Okinawa-ken were subject to different laws until the 20th century) was subdivided into cities (市, shi) and districts (郡, gun) and each district into towns (町, chō/machi) and villages (村, son/mura).
In 2015, Tottori (31 on map) and Shimane (32) districts were combined as Tottori-Shimane, and Tokushima (36) and Kochi (39) districts were combined as Tokushima-Kochi. The House of Councillors, the upper house of the Japanese National Diet is made up of 248 members elected from 45 districts plus a national proportional representation list ...
Districts (郡, gun) were administrative units in use between 1878 and 1921 that were roughly equivalent to the counties of China or the United States. In the 1920s, municipal functions were transferred from district offices to the offices of the towns and villages within the district.
For most of the twentieth century, Asakusa was the main entertainment district in Tokyo, with large theaters, cinemas, an amusement park and a red light district. The area was heavily damaged by US bombing raids during World War II, [15] and has now been rivaled by newer districts in the west of the city as entertainment and commercial centers.
A ward (区, ku) is a subdivision of the cities of Japan that are large enough to have been designated by government ordinance. [1] Wards are used to subdivide each city designated by government ordinance ("designated city").