Ishikawa Prefecture

Ishikawa-ken ; 石川県
Basic data
Administrative headquarters :	Kanazawa
Region :	Chūbu
Main island :	Honshu
Area :	4,186.05 km²
Residents :	1,137,181 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	272 inhabitants per km²
Counties :	5
Municipalities :	19th
ISO 3166-2 :	JP-17
Governor :	Masanori Tanimoto
Website:	www.pref.ishikawa.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Prefecture tree :	Noto Hiba tree of life
Prefecture flower :	Fritillaria camschatcensis
Vogel prefecture :	Golden eagle
Fish prefecture :	Spring: half-beak , plaice ; Summer: squid ; Autumn: arctic shrimp ; Winter: Chionoecetes opilio , Seriola quinqueradiata ;
Prefecture song :	Ishikawa-kenmin no uta; ("Song of the Ishikawa Citizens")

The Ishikawa prefecture ( Japanese 石川県 , Ishikawa-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan . It is located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshū . The seat of the prefectural administration is Kanazawa .

history

After the abolition of the feudal system in the Meiji Restoration , Ishikawa Prefecture was established in 1871 in the ancient provinces of Kaga , Noto , Echizen and Etchū from several fiefs ( Han ) or prefectures that emerged from them. At times it comprised areas from two other current prefectures: Fukui prefecture was finally separated from Ishikawa in 1881, Toyama prefecture only in 1883.

politics

Political groups in the prefecture parliament
(as of April 30, 2019)

A total of 43 seats

LDP : 31
Mirai Ishikawa ("Future Ishikawa"; DVP , SDP , non-party): 7
Kōmeitō : 2
One-man parliamentary groups (including CPY ): 3

Masanori Tanimoto has been governor of Ishikawa since 1994 . He was re-elected for a seventh term in the 2018 gubernatorial election against a communist challenger with almost 80% of the vote. The voter turnout decreased compared to the 2014 election (45%) to 39.07%, the lowest value ever. Since Masaru Hashimoto was voted out of office in Ibaraki in autumn 2017, Tanimoto has been the country's longest-serving governor.

Even after the elections in April 2019 , the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) still holds an absolute majority in the prefecture parliament .

In the national parliament , Ishikawa is represented in the lower house by three directly elected MPs and is part of the Hokuriku-Shin'etsu proportional representation . The prefecture elects one member per partial election to the upper house . After the 2016 , 2017 and 2019 elections , all five of Ishikawa's representatives are Liberal Democrats, namely:

in the lower house
- for constituency 1, which only includes the prefecture capital Kanazawa, Hiroshi Hase (LDP, 7th term), former professional wrestler and member of the House of Lords,
- for constituency 2, which includes the south of Ishikawa, Hajime Sasaki (LDP, 3rd term of office), who replaced the long-standing MP and former party chairman Yoshirō Mori in 2012 ,
- for constituency 3 in the north Shōji Nishida (LDP, 1st term), former Vice President of the Prefectural Parliament, and
in the upper house
- until 2022 Naoki Okada (LDP, 3rd term) and
- by 2025 Shūji Yamada (LDP, 2nd term), a former official in the Ministry of Agriculture who sovereignly prevailed against the Democratic incumbent and former Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa in the 2013 election .

The main building of the prefectural administration in the Kuratsuki district of Kanazawa, completed in 2002
The parliament building in the same building complex

Administrative division

When today's community forms were introduced in 1889, Ishikawa was divided into 274 communities, including the city of Kanazawa as the first and initially only independent city. In April 1996, the seat of the prefectural administration also became a "core city" .
The number of municipalities fell in almost 100 years from 221 (1920), over 72 (1955) and 43 (1960) to the present (since 2011) 19. Eleven urban districts ( -shi ) and eight urban districts ( 6 -machi / 2 - chō ) shows the current structure. With the incorporation of the village of Yanagida ( -mura ) into the district town of Noto ( -chō ), the last village in the prefecture disappeared in March 2005. The number of counties ( -gun ) has fallen from eight to five since 1889.

In the table below, the districts ( 郡 , -gun ) are shown in italics, below each (indented) the small towns ( 町 , -chō / -machi ) 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 parishes in Ishikawa Prefecture
code	Surname		Area (in km²)	population	Population density (inh / km²) ³
code	Rōmaji	Kanji	October 1, 2017 ¹	October 1, 2018 ²	October 1, 2015 ³
17201	Kanazawa- shi	金沢市	468.64	465.325	465.699	993.72
17202	Nanao- shi	七尾市	318.29	52,914	55,325	173.82
17203	Komatsu- shi	小松市	371.05	107.014	106,919	288.15
17204	Wajima- shi	輪島市	426.32	25,505	27,216	63.84
17205	Suzu- shi	珠洲市	247.2	13,489	14,625	59.16
17206	Kaga- shi	加賀市	305.87	65.009	67.186	219.66
17207	Hakui- shi	羽咋市	81.85	20,837	21,729	265.47
17209	Kahoku- shi	かほく市	64.44	34,572	34,219	531.02
17210	Hakusan- shi	白山市	754.93	110.197	109.287	144.76
17211	Nomi- shi	能美市	84.14	49.166	48,881	580.95
17212	Nonoichi-shi	野々市市	13.56	56,045	55,099	4063.35
17320	Nomi-gun	能美郡	14.64	6323	6347	433.54
17324	Kawakita-machi	川北町	14.64	6323	6347	433.54
17360	Kahoku-gun	河北郡	130.92	63,563	63,955	488.5
17361	Tsubata-machi	津幡町	110.59	36,799	36,968	334.28
17365	Uchinada-machi	内灘町	20.33	26,764	26,987	1327.45
17380	Hakui-gun	羽咋郡	358.29	31,723	33,596	93.77
17384	Shika-machi	志賀町	246.76	19,212	20,422	82.76
17386	Hōdatsushimizu-chō	宝達志水町	111.52	12,511	13,174	118.13
17400	Kashima gun	鹿島郡	89.45	16,929	17,571	196.43
17407	Nakanoto-machi	中能登町	89.45	16,929	17,571	196.43
17460	Hosu-gun	鳳珠郡	456.47	24,354	26,354	57.73
17461	Anamizu-machi	穴水町	183.21	8119	8786	47.96
17463	Noto-cho	能登町	273.27	16,235	17,568	64.29

Shi-bu ( All Shi , proportion of urban districts)	市部	3136.28	1,000,073	1.006.185	320.82
Gun-bu ( All Gun , percentage of counties)	郡部	1049.77	142,892	147,823	140.81

17000	Ishikawa-Ken (Ishikawa Prefecture)	石川県	4186.05	1,142,965	1,154,008	275.68

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

Biggest places

Independent cities (-shi) and
cities (-chō / -machi)
census results on October 1st
VZ year	Residents
VZ year	2015	2010	2005	2000
Kanazawa-shi	465.699	462.361	454607	456.438
Hakusan.shi	109.287	110,459	109,450	——
Komatsu-shi	106,919	108,433	109.084	108,622
Kaga-shi	67.186	71,887	74,982	68,368
Nanao-shi	55,325	57,900	61,871	47,351
Nonoichi-shi	55,099	——	——	——
Nomi-shi	48,881	48,680	47.207	——
Tsubata-machi	36,968	36,940	35,712	34,304
Kahoku-shi	34,219	34,651	34,847	——
Wajima-shi	27,216	29,858	25,301	26,381
Uchinada-machi	26,987	26,927	26,896	26,560
Hakui-shi	21,729	23,032	24,517	25,541
Shika-machi	20,422	22,216	23,790	15,681
Nakanoto-machi	17,571	18,535	18,959	——
Noto-cho	17,568	19,565	21,792	11,433
Suzu-shi	14,625	16,300	18,050	19,852
Hodatsushimizu-chō	13,174	14,277	15,236	——
Mattō-shi	——	——	——	65,370

March 1, 2004 - The independent city of Kahoku consists of three parishes .
February 1, 2005 - The independent city of Matto and seven other parishes form the independent city of Hakusan .
February 1, 2005 - Three parishes form the independent city of Nomi .
March 1, 2005 - The district town of Hodatsushimizu is formed from two parishes.
March 1, 2005 - The district town of Nakanoto is formed from three parishes.
November 1, 2011 - The district town of Nonoichi is raised to the status of an independent town .

Population development in the prefecture

Census population
Census year	Total population	male population	female population	Gender ratio men to 1000 women	Area in km²	Population density per km ²
1920	747.360	364,375	382.985	951	4197.51	178.1
1925	750.854	365.597	385.257	949	4197.51	178.9
1930	756.835	368.402	388,433	948	4197.51	180.3
1935	768.416	370.907	397.509	933	4192.42	183.3
1940	757.676	363,922	393.754	924	4192.42	180.7
1945	887.510	405.264	482.246	840	4192.42	211.7
1950	957.279	460,859	496.420	928	4195.75	228.2
1955	966.187	463.477	502.710	922	4193.92	230.4
1960	973.418	464.889	508,529	914	4193.92	232.1
1965	980.499	468,518	511,981	915	4194.54	233.8
1970	1,002,420	480,380	522.040	920	4195.27	238.9
1975	1,069,872	518.594	551.278	941	4196.08	255.0
1980	1,119,304	542,782	576,522	942	4196.82	266.7
1985	1,152,325	557.664	594,661	938	4197.39	274.5
1990	1,164,628	562,684	601.944	935	4184.56	278.3
1995	1,180,068	570.835	609.233	937	4184.83	282.0
2000	1,180,977	572.244	608.733	940	4185.22	282.2
2005	1,174,026	567.060	606.966	934	4185.46	280.5
2010	1,169,788	564,972	604.816	934	4185.66	279.5
2015	1,154,008	558,589	595.419	938	4186.09	275.7

Outline of the prefecture
Noto
Kenrokuen
Higashiyama Chaya
Road signs in Ishikawa Prefecture

Web links

Commons : Ishikawa Prefecture - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 府県の変遷

↑ 福井県誕生までの歴史 . History pages for children. (No longer available online.) In: Fukui Prefecture. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015 ; Retrieved August 15, 2016 (Japanese).

↑ Toyama Prefecture: 歴史と伝説 ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Ishikawa Prefecture Parliament : Members by political group , accessed August 7, 2019.

↑ 石川県知事選谷本氏７選 . In: Mainichi Shimbun . March 12, 2018, Retrieved April 3, 2018 (Japanese).

↑ 石川県知事に谷本氏、現職最多の７選 . In: Sankei WEST. March 11, 2018, Retrieved April 3, 2018 (Japanese).

↑ Kokudo Chiriin (GSI - Geospatial Information Authority of Japan), 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. 48: 17 Ishikawa-ken (Japanese), accessed on 17 February 2019

↑ 簡単検索・詳細検索・検索サンプル , accessed February 17, 2019 (Japanese)

↑ e-stat (English), accessed on February 17, 2019

↑ e-Stat database , accessed on February 17, 2019 (English)

36.633055555556 136.65Coordinates: 36 ° 38 ' N , 136 ° 39' E

[1] 府県の変遷

[2] 福井県誕生までの歴史 . History pages for children. (No longer available online.) In: Fukui Prefecture. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015 ; Retrieved August 15, 2016 (Japanese).