48 hàng · Japan is a unitary state.The central government delegates many functions (such as education and the police force) to the prefectures and municipalities, but retains the overall right to control them.Although local government expenditure accounts for 70 percent of overall government expenditure, the central government controls local budgets, tax rates, and borrowing.

20/12/2013 · Direct Translations of Japanese Prefectures and Local Areas Names. You may wonder what all those Japanese town and city names really means, since each kanji characters has its own meaning. So I painstakingly translated each word just for you, and added a little information about each prefecture and it's local areas.

In English, "prefecture" is used as the translation for todōfuken (都道府県), which are the main subdivisions of Japan. They consist of 43 prefectures (県 ken) proper, two urban prefectures (府 fu, Osaka and Kyoto), one "circuit" or "territory" (道 dō, Hokkaido) and one "metropolis" (都 …

04/04/2019 · In English, it is usual to say that Japan has 47 prefectures. In Japanese, however, they are divided into one to (Tokyo), one dō (Hokkaidō), two fu …

11/07/2013 · I’m hesitant to say “Hokkaidō Prefecture” because the “ dō ” is never separated from the word in Japanese or English, so Hokkaidō Prefecture would be back-translated into Japanese as 北海道道 Hokkaidōdō, which just sounds retarded [iii].

24/03/2011 · Because of Japan's large size, it is divided into 47 different prefectures for local administration . Prefectures in Japan are the highest level of government that an area can have as it is right below the federal government. They are similar to the 50 states of the United States and the 28 states of India or the provinces of Canada. Each prefecture has its own governor …

Administrative Map of Japan (As ofApril l, 2021) Japan is divided into 47 prefectures. The words printed in black are the names of 47 prefectures and those printed in blue italics are the names of prefectural capital cities and/or Ordinance- designated cities. O Prefectural capital cities Prefectural capital cities (also Ordinance-designated cities)

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15/04/2020 · In Japan, you are bound to notice unusual if not straight up bewildering translations of English from Japanese.They are so prevalent that the word “Engrish” was coined just to lump them all together. From local government to expensive ads, somewhere down the line from conception to the implementation, someone never bothered to ask a native English speaker, …