Mie prefecture

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Mie-ken
三重 県
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Basic data
Administrative headquarters : Tsu
Region : Kinki
Main island : Honshu
Area : 5,774.45  km²
Water content: 0.7  %
Residents : 1,781,948
(June 1, 2019)
Population density : 309 inhabitants per km²
Counties : 7th
Municipalities : 29
ISO 3166-2 : JP-24
Governor : Eikei Suzuki
Website: www.pref.mie.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Flag of Mie Prefecture
Prefecture tree : Jingu Japanese cedar
Prefecture flower : Japanese iris
Vogel prefecture : Kentish plover
Fish prefecture : Japanese lobster
Prefecture mammal : Japanese serau
Prefecture song : Mie-kenminka
三重 県 民歌
("Song of the Citizens of Mie")
Citizens Day: April 18

The Mie Prefecture ( Japanese 三重県 Mie-ken ) is one of the prefectures of Japan . The seat of the prefectural administration is Tsu . Mie is located on the main island of Honshū as well as over 200 offshore islands and is assigned to the western Japanese region of Kinki / Kansai in the classic geographical eight-region division of Japan , but in practical contexts it is often included in Tōkai or large-scale Chūbu / central / eastern Japan , so for example with the national police authority, lower house elections, or with the successor companies of the state railway.

Surname

After the Kojiki , the name Mie , literally: "triple", comes from Yamato Takeru . When he sets out to submit to the deity from Mount Ibuki , he first has to conquer a mountain on which this deity sends a heavy freezing rain and then cross the Tagi plain ( 當 藝 野 ). When he finally reaches a village he says:

「吾 が 足 は 三重 の 勾 の 如 く し て 甚 疲 れ た り。」

"Ware ga ashi wa mihe no magari no shikushite ito tsukaretari."

“My legs are bent three times and are extremely tired. English “My legs are like three-fold crooks, and very weary”. "

Thereupon the village and with it the region got the name Mihe or Mie. Yamato Takeru succumbed shortly afterwards.

politics

Political groups in the prefecture parliament
(as of May 13, 2019)
       
A total of 51 seats
  • Shinsei Mie ("Renewal Mie": Shinsei Mie , Mie minshu rengō [two regional parties made up of ex-democrats], non-party): 21
  • Jiyūminshutō kengidan ("Prefectural Parliament Group Liberal Democratic Party "): 15
  • Sōmō ( 草莽 ): 6
  • Jimintō (" LDP "): 5
  • Kōmeitō : 2
  • KPY : 1
  • Kusa no ne undō Iga ("grassroots movement Iga"): 1

The sixth elected governor of Mie since 2011 is Eikei Suzuki , a former LDP candidate for the national parliament, who narrowly prevailed against the center-left candidate Naohisa Matsuda in the unified regional elections in April 2011 and in the unified elections in 2015 and 2019 was re-elected against only one communist challenger at a time. The parliament, which is also elected in the uniform regional elections, has 51 regular members. In the 2019 elections, the LDP was by far the strongest party with 21 seats, but the Shinsei Mie faction made up of former Democrats is the strongest.

Mie is the home prefecture of former DPJ and Minshinto chairman Katsuya Okada ; and although only the north, which is part of the Pacific city band and belongs to the Chūkyō metropolitan region around Nagoya , is more urbanized and industrialized, the Democratic Party was relatively strong. Since 2017, Mie has only been represented in the National Assembly by four members in the House of Representatives , the lower house, and two in the council house , the upper house. The directly elected MPs from Mie after the 2016 , 2017 and 2019 elections (as of August 2019) are:

  • in the House of Representatives
    • for constituency 1 with the capital Tsu Norihisa Tamura (LDP, 8th election),
    • for constituency 2 north of it to the southern part of Mie 's largest city Yokkaichi Masaharu Nakagawa (nationally independent to the KDP faction, locally to Mie Minshu rengō / "Mie Democratic League", 8th election),
    • for constituency 3 in the very north of Mie with the northern part of Yokkaichi Katsuya Okada (nationally non-partisan to the KDP faction, locally to the "Democratic Bund Mie", 10th election),
    • for constituency 4 in the more rural south of Mie Norio Mitsuya (LDP, 4th choice), MLIT official before his first election in 2003 ,
  • in the council house
    • until 2025 Yūmi Yoshikawa (LDP, 2nd choice), before the 2013 election in which she defeated the democratic incumbent Chiaki Takahashi , employee of the Mitsui Sumitomo Bank (English Sumitomo Mitsui Banking), and
    • until 2022 Hirokazu Shiba (KDP, 3rd choice), before his first election in 2004 a member of the prefectural parliament for nine years, 2012 deputy head of the cabinet secretariat.

Administrative division

Main building of the prefectural administration in Tsu, where the parliament also meets.
The old building of the prefecture administration of Mie, which was used between 1879 and 1964, stands as an "important cultural asset" of Japan today in the Meiji Museum Village in the neighboring prefecture of Aichi.

With the introduction of the modern parishes in 1889, the Mie prefecture consisted of an independent city, 18 small towns and 317 villages (in 21 districts). Through incorporations and mergers, the number of municipalities fell from 340 (1920) through 109 (1955) to 69 in 2000. Since 2006, the prefecture has consisted of 14 independent cities ( Shi ) and 15 small towns ( Chō ) in seven counties. Three of these districts consist of only one municipality each. On January 10, 2006, the village of Udono ( 鵜 殿 村 Udono-mura ) in the district of Minamimoru ( Minamimoru-gun ) was incorporated into the small town of Kihō ( 紀宝 町 Kihō-chō ). There are no more villages ( 村 Mura ) in this prefecture.

The most populous city of Yokkaichi received on November 1, 2000 the status of a "special city" ( 特例 市 Tokureishi ).

In the table below, the districts ( 郡 Gun ) are shown in italics, including (indented) the small towns ( 町 Chō ) and villages ( 村 Mura ) within them. A dependency between rural district and small town can also be seen in the first three digits of the code (1st column). At the beginning of the table are the independent cities ( 市 Shi ).

List of municipalities in Mie
code Surname Area (in km²) population Population
density (inh / km²) 3
Rōmaji Kanji October 1, 2017 1 October 1, 2019 2 October 1, 2015 3
24201 Tsu- shi 津市 711.19 276.660 279,886 393.55
24202 Yokkaichi-shi 四日 市 市 206.44 310,750 311.031 1506.64
24203 Ise- shi 伊 勢 市 208.35 124,650 127.817 613.47
24204 Matsusaka-shi 松 阪 市 623.58 160.907 163,863 262.78
24205 Kuwana-shi 桑 名 市 136.68 139,878 140.303 1026.51
24207 Suzuka-shi 鈴鹿 市 194.46 196.257 196,403 1009.99
24208 Nabari-shi 名 張 市 129.77 77.040 78,795 607.19
24209 Owase-shi 尾 鷲 市 192.71 16,767 18.009 93.45
24210 Kameyama- shi 亀 山 市 191.04 50,035 50,254 263.05
24211 Toba- shi 鳥羽 市 107.34 18.306 19,448 181.18
24212 Kumano- shi 熊 野 市 373.35 16,459 17,322 46.40
24214 Inabe-shi い な べ 市 219.83 45,383 45,815 208.41
24215 Shima- shi 志摩 市 178.95 47,653 50,341 281.31
24216 Iga- shi 伊 賀 市 558.23 88.111 90,581 162.26
24300 Kuwana gun 桑 名 郡 15.74 6200 6357 403.88
24303   Kisosaki-cho 木 曽 岬 町 15.74 6200 6357 403.88
24320 Possession-gun 員 弁 郡 22.68 25,355 25,344 1117.46
24324   Tōin-chō 東 員 町 22.68 25,355 25,344 1117.46
24340 Mie-gun 三重 郡 121.73 66,372 65,522 538.26
24341   Komono-cho 菰 野 町 107.01 40,590 40.210 375.76
24343   Asahi-cho 朝日 町 5.99 10,909 10,560 1762.94
24344   Kawagoe-chō 川 越 町 8.73 14,873 14,752 1689.81
24440 Takai-gun 多 気 郡 506.96 46.158 47.021 92.75
24441   Taki-cho 多 気 町 103.06 14,450 14,878 144.36
24442   Meiwa-cho 明 和 町 41.04 22,621 22,586 550.34
24443   Ōdai-chō 大 台 町 362.86 9087 9557 26.34
24460 Wataraii gun 度 会 郡 651.10 43.205 45,467 69.83
24461   Tamaki-cho 玉 城 町 40.91 15,291 15,431 377.19
24470   Watarai-cho 度 会 町 134.98 8022 8309 61.56
24471   Taiki-cho 大 紀 町 233.32 8212 8939 38.31
24472   Minamiise-chō 南伊 勢 町 241.89 11,680 12,788 52.87
24540 Kitamuro gun 北 牟 婁 郡 256.53 15,217 16,338 63.69
24543   Kihoku-cho 紀 北 町 256.53 15,217 16,338 63.69
24560 Minamimuro gun 南 牟 婁 郡 167.75 19,013 19,948 118.92
24561   Mihama-cho 御 浜 町 88.13 8306 8741 99.18
24562   Kihō-chō 紀宝 町 79.62 10,707 11.207 140.76
Shi-bu ( All Shi , proportion of urban districts) 市 部 4031.90 1,568,856 1,589,868 394.32
Gun-bu ( All Gun , percentage of counties) 郡 部 1742.50 221,520 225.997 129.7
24000 Mie-Ken (Mie Prefecture) 三重 県 5774.41 1,790,376 1,815,865 314.47

Sources
1 Area data from 2017
2 Estimated population 2018
3 Results of the 2015 census

Biggest places

Former and Existing Cities (-shi)
October 1st census results
VZ year Residents
2015 2010 2005 2000
Yokkaichi 311.031 307.766 303.845 291.105
Tsu 279,886 285,746 165.182 163.246
Suzuka 196,403 199.293 193.114 186.151
Matsusaka 163,863 168.017 168.973 123.727
Kuwana 140.303 140.290 138.963 108,378
Ise 127.817 130.271 97,777 100.145
Iga 90,581 97.207 100,623 -
Nabari 78,795 80.284 82,156 83.291
Shima 50,341 54,694 58,225 -
Kameyama 50,254 51.023 49,253 39,334
Inabe 45,815 45,684 46,446 -
Toba 19,448 21,435 23,067 24,945
Owase 18.009 20,033 22,103 23,683
Kumano 17,322 19,662 19,607 20,898
Ueno - - - 61,493
Hisai - - 42.191 41,063
  • December 1, 2003 - The small town of Inabe integrates three communities and is raised to the status of an independent town .
  • October 1, 2004 - The small town of Shima incorporates four communities and is raised to the status of an independent city
  • November 1, 2004 - the independent city of Iga is created by merging the city of Ueno with five municipalities.
  • January 1, 2006 - The independent city of Hisai is incorporated into the independent city of Tsu along with eight other parishes .

Population development in the prefecture

Census Population - Census Results
Census
year		 Total
population		 male
population		 female
population		 Gender
ratio
men to 1000 women 		Area
in km 2 		Population
density
per km 2
1920 2,089,762 1,033,860 1,055,902 979.1 5055.06 413.40
1920 1,069,270 525,957 543.313 968.1 5702.10 187.52
1925 1,107,692 544.752 562,940 967.7 5702.10 194.26
1930 1,157,407 571,000 586,407 973.7 5765.34 200.75
1935 1,174,595 572,356 602.239 950.4 5765.28 203.74
1940 1,198,783 585,427 613.356 954.5 5765.28 207.93
1945 1,394,286 646.954 747.332 865.7 5765.28 241.84
1950 1,461,197 704.805 756.392 931.8 5762.38 253.58
1955 1,485,582 717.819 767.763 934.9 5765.85 257.65
1960 1,485,054 716.715 768,339 932.8 5765.81 257.56
1965 1,514,467 727.802 786.665 925.2 5767.80 262.57
1970 1,543,083 742.461 800,622 927.4 5771.92 267.34
1975 1,626,002 787.280 838.722 938.7 5773.59 281.63
1980 1,686,936 817,578 869.358 940.4 5776.49 292.03
1985 1,747,311 847.420 899.891 941.7 5777.57 302.43
1990 1,792,514 869.515 922.999 942.1 5774.48 310.42
1995 1,841,358 893.982 947.376 943.6 5773.66 318.92
2000 1,857,339 901.380 955.959 942.9 5776.40 321.54
2005 1,866,963 907.214 959.749 945.3 5776.68 323.19
2010 1,854,724 903.398 951.326 949.6 5777.27 321.04
2015 1,815,865 883.516 932,349 947.6 5774.40 314.47

history

  • 1868 ( Boshin War / Meiji Restoration ): Foundation of the prefecture (initially -fu , later -ken ) Watarai (seat of the prefecture administration: Yamada in the Watarai district of the Ise province ) from the Yamada (Yamada bugyō) bailiwick of the shogunate
  • 1871 ( abolition of the Han , first prefectural mergers and elimination of exclaves):
    • Establishment of the Anotsu prefecture (administrative seat: Anotsu [lit. "Port of Anō"], district Anō , province Ise) from the prefectures / ex-principalities (-han) Tsu , Nagashima , Kuwana , Komono , Kameyama and Kanbe
    • Expansion of the Watarai prefecture to include the prefectures / ex-principalities of Hisai and Toba
    • After adjustment, Watarai comprised five counties of Ise province, all of Shima and a small part of Kii , the rest of Ise and Iga belonged to Anotsu .
  • 1872: The administrative headquarters of Anotsu Prefecture are relocated to Yokkaichi in Mie County and renamed to Mie Prefecture
  • 1873: Relocation of the capital to Anotsu
  • 1876: The Mie and Watarai prefectures are united to form the new Mie prefecture
Spread of the Ise uprisings in 1876: in green insurgent places / gathering places of the peasants, in red urban targets of conquest, crossed failed attacks
  • 1876: Ise uprisings ( 伊 勢 暴動 Ise bōdō ): In the province of Ise, the rural population rises against the property taxes reformed in 1873, the revolt covers most of Mie and spreads to the neighboring prefectures of Aichi, Gifu and Sakai (today Nara) . The uprising is suppressed by the garrison and police, but the property tax is also reduced in 1877.
  • 1946: Establishment of the Ise Shima National Park
  • 1956: Rokken railway accident
  • 1959: Ise Bay Typhoon: 320,000 victims
  • 1973: Partnership between Mie and São Paulo , Brazil
  • 1982: Opening of the Mie Art Museum
  • 1986: Cooperation between Mie and Henan , China
  • 1992: Mie partnership with Valencia , Spain
  • 1996: Cooperation between Mie and the Republic of Palau

Attractions

  • Iga-style ninja house: A reproduction of a ninja house with hidden plaques and secret paths.
  • Ise-jingū : A Shintō shrine which is considered the highest shrine in Japan in the Shintō shrine, consisting of two main shrines and 125 secondary shrines. It reflects the beauty of the past Japanese culture.
  • Ise Sengoku: A historic village that represents the Sengoku period and the Azuchi-Momoyama period . The village is often used for historical films.
  • Mie Art Museum: Collections on the Western Style of Japanese Art.
  • Sakakibara Onsen : This is an onsen in Hisai (today: Tsu).
  • Shima-Spain-Mura: A Spanish theme park in Sakazaki, Isobe-chō , Shima.
  • Suzuka International Racing Course : World-famous Formula 1 racing track

Festivals

  • January 1st: Geta Matsuri in Toba
  • 1-5 February: Yaya Matsuri: Festival of Owase-jinja with a daimyo parade.
  • Early June: Shiokake Matsuri (Festival of Health) in Owase
  • June 24th: Izonomiya Otaue Matsuri in Isobe-chō, Shima (fertility festival for the rice)
  • July 11: Shirongo Matsuri in Toba (Entertaining Festival of Women)
  • First weekend in August: Ishidobe Matsuri in Kuwana.
  • August 17th: Kumano Hanabi Matsuri in Kumano. Celebrated with fireworks .
  • Third Sunday in September: Waraji Matsuri (Festival of Straw Sandals) in Daiō-chō , Shima
  • 23-25 October: Ueno Tenjin Matsuri in Ueno , Iga (Autumn Festival of the Sugawara-jinja)
  • November 3: Nigishima Matsuri ( 二 木 島 祭 ) in Nigishima-chō, Kumano (Festival for city security.)
  • December 31: Nanori Shimenawakiri in Daiō-chō, Shima (Festival of the Harvest)

Sports

The Japanese Formula 1 races take place in Suzuka .

Partnerships

Mie Prefecture has partnerships with:

Web links

Commons : Mie Prefecture  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei: Kojiki , pp. 221: 6
  2. ^ English translation by Basil Hall Chamberlain
  3. ↑ Mie Prefectural Parliament : Members by parliamentary group , accessed on August 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ 統一 地方 選 2019 三重 県 議 選 各 党 議席 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. April 8, 2019, Retrieved August 8, 2019 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ 統一 地方 選 2019> 三重> 三重 県 議 選 . In: Chūnichi Shimbun . April 2019, Retrieved August 8, 2019 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ Kokudo Chiriin (GSI - Geospatial Information Authority of Japan), gsi.go.jp 平 成 29 年全国都 道 府 県 市区 町 村 別 面積 調 (Nationwide survey of all prefectures and municipalities 2017), p. 62: 24 Mie-ken (Japanese ), accessed January 30, 2019
  7. ↑ 簡 単 検 索 ・ 詳細 検 索 ・ 検 索 サ ン プ ル , accessed January 30, 2019 (Japanese)
  8. ↑ e-stat (English), accessed on January 30, 2019
  9. ↑ e-Stat database , accessed on January 30, 2019 (English)
  10. ↑ Mie Prefecture Administration: Timeline of History in the Meiji Period , accessed on November 16, 2019.
  11. ↑ Mie prefecture administration: 三重 県 庁 舎 （津市 下部 田） , accessed on November 16, 2019.

Coordinates: 34 ° 42 ′  N , 136 ° 30 ′  E