Nagasaki Prefecture

Nagasaki-ken ; 長崎県
Basic data
Administrative headquarters :	Nagasaki
Region :	Kyushu
Main island :	Kyushu
Area :	4131 km²
Water content:	8.5 %
Residents :	1.325.205 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	321 inhabitants per km²
Counties :	4th
Municipalities :	21st
ISO 3166-2 :	JP-42
Governor :	Hōdō Nakamura
Website:	www.pref.nagasaki.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Prefecture tree :	Hinoki cypress
Prefecture flower :	Rhododendron kiusianum
Vogel prefecture :	Mandarin duck
Fish prefecture :	Spring: sea bream , squid , branchiostegus ; Summer: jack mackerel , Parapristipoma trilineatum , abalone ; Autumn: mackerel , flying fish , Paralichthys olivaceus ; Winter: Seriola quinqueradiata , Sardinops melanostictus , puffer fish ;
Prefecture mammal :	Japanese sika deer
Prefecture song :	Nagasaki-kenminka; ("Song of the Nagasaki Citizens")
Tree blossom:	camellia

Nagasaki ( Jap. 長崎県 Nagasaki ken ) is a prefecture of Japan . It is located in southern Japan in the Kyushu region, mainly on the island of Kyushu. The seat of the prefecture administration is the city of the same name Nagasaki .

geography

Nagasaki Prefecture (excluding the Shimabara Peninsula in the southeast and islands in the north and west) with Ōmura Bay in the middle

Nagasaki Prefecture is located in the far west of Kyushu . Since the prefecture is surrounded by the East China Sea in 3 directions and consists of numerous smaller islands, it has the longest coastline in Japan after Hokkaidō with 4,165 km. In the north and northeast it borders on the Saga prefecture .

Larger islands and archipelagos are Tsushima and Iki in the north in the Tsushima Strait , and the Gotō Islands in the west.

The 320 km² large großemura Bay is centrally located . This is only connected in the north via the approximately 200 m wide Hario Strait and the 10 m wide Haiki Strait at its narrowest point with the Sasebo Bay ( 佐世保湾 , Sasebo-wan ) of the East China Sea. To the west of Ōmura Bay is the Nishisonogi Peninsula and southwest of the Nagasaki Peninsula . In the southeast is the Ariake Sea , a 1,700 km² bay that winds along the Shimabara Peninsula with the dominating Unzen volcano mountains.

history

Nagasaki Prefecture comprises the western part of the historical Hizen Province and the island provinces of Tsushima and Iki . In the Edo period the area was ruled in the fiefdoms of Saga, Shimabara, Ōmura, Hirado, Hirado-Shinden, Fukue and Tsushima-Fuchū. The city of Nagasaki, the foreign trade access to Japan during the land closure , was administered by a magistrate ( Nagasaki bugyō ) directly from the Shogun.

The Nagasaki Prefecture was created in the Meiji Restoration in 1868 as Nagasaki-fu - a city prefecture like Edo or Osaka - from the previous magistrate of the shogunate. In 1869 the prefecture was transformed into an ordinary prefecture, -ken . In the following years the borders changed several times; the Saga Prefecture (temporarily: Prefecture Imari) was finally separated from Nagasaki only 1,883th

politics

Political groups in the prefecture parliament
(as of May 14, 2019)

A total of 46 seats

Jiyūminshutō ・ kenmin kaigi (" Liberal Democratic Party , Pref. Citizens' Conference"): 17
Jiyūminshutō (~ " Liberal Democratic Party "; split in July 2017): 15
Kaikaku21 ("Reform 21"; with KDP , DVP , SDP ): 9
Kōmeitō : 3
Two further parliamentary groups each with one member (including CPY ): 2

Hōdō Nakamura has been the governor of Nagasaki since 2010 . He was re-elected for a third term in the 2018 Nagasaki gubernatorial election with LDP-Kōmeitō support against the communist Toshihiko Haraguchi - already the only opposing candidate in the 2014 election. The turnout ( 2010 : 60.1%, 2014: 40.7%) fell to a record low of 36.03%. The 46 members of parliament were elected in the April 2019 elections. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) remained clearly the strongest party with 28 seats.

In the national parliament , Nagasaki is represented by four directly elected MPs in the lower house and one per election in the upper house , after the elections in 2016 , 2017 , 2019 and party reshuffles since then (as of August 2019):

in the lower house
- for the constituency Nagasaki 1 with the majority of the city of Nagasaki Hideko Nishioka ( DVP , 1st term of office), the daughter of Takeo Nishioka , previously defeated Minshintō candidate for Nagasaki in the upper house election 2016,
- for constituency 2 with the city of Isahaya since 2012 Kanji Katō (LDP, 3rd term of office), previously member of the prefectural parliament for eight electoral terms,
- for constituency 3 with the city of Ōmura and a large part of the outer islands of Nagasaki Yaichi Tanigawa (LDP, 6th term of office), former chairman of the culture and science committee,
- for constituency 4 with most of the city of Sasebo and the north and west of the main island part of Seigo Kitamura prefecture (LDP, 6th term), former chairman of the security committee,
in the upper house
- by 2025 Yūichirō Koga (LDP, 2nd term), former Vice Mayor of Nagasaki, who was confirmed in 2019 with around 52% of the vote against opposition candidate Ayumi Shirakawa (DVP, 45%), and
- until 2022 Genjirō Kaneko (LDP, 2nd term), previously governor of Nagasaki for twelve years, switched to the national parliament in 2010 and re-elected in 2016 with 53% of the votes against Hideko Nishioka (45%).

Besides that of Tokyo, that of Nagasaki is the only prefectural administration whose transport office operates public transport itself.

Administrative division

Regional division of Nagasaki by the prefectural administration:

Nagasaki region ( 長崎地域 , ~ chiiki )

Kenhoku region ( 県北地域 , i.e. the "prefectural north ")

Ken'ō region ( 県央地域 , i.e. the "prefectural center")

Shimabara region ( 島原地域 )

Gotō Region ( 五島地域 )

Iki region ( 壱岐地域 )

Tsushima region ( 対馬地域 )

The main building of the Prefectural Administration in the Edomachi District of Nagasaki

Since 2010 there are still 21 parishes in Nagasaki: 13 [district] cities (- shi ) , two of them in a special form for large cities, and eight [district] cities (- chō ) . The last village (- mura ) Ōshima-mura disappeared during the Heisei territorial reform on October 1, 2005 when it was incorporated into the city of Hirado. When the present-day community forms were introduced in 1889, Nagasaki initially had over 300 communities, most of them villages; before the great Shōwa territorial reform of the 1950s, there were over 150 communities, and in 2000 there were 79.

Note: For the sake of readability, multi-part place and district names (double places, for differentiation prefixed province / prefecture / district names, cardinal points, etc.) and regional authority suffixes have been separated by a hyphen, the other Romanization practice is inconsistent.

List of parishes in Nagasaki Prefecture
code	Surname		County gun	Area (in km²)	population	Population density (inh / km²)
code	Rōmaji	Kanji	County gun	01.10.2017 ¹	01.10.2018 ²	01/10/2015 ³
42201	Nagasaki- shi ( "core city" )	長崎市		405.86	411.421	429.508	1058.27
42202	Sasebo- shi ( "core town" )	佐世保市		426.06	246,950	255.439	599.54
42203	Shimabara- shi	島原市		82.97	43,553	45,436	547.62
42204	Isahaya- shi	諫早市		341.79	134.503	138,078	403.98
42205	Ōmura- shi	大村市		126.64	95,062	92,757	732.45
42207	Hirado- shi	平戸市		235.09	29,577	31,920	135.78
42208	Matsuura- shi	松浦市		130.55	21,856	23,309	178.54
42209	Tsushima- shi	対馬市		707.42	29,337	31,457	44.47
42210	Iki- shi	壱岐市		139.42	25.506	27,103	194.40
42211	Gotō- shi	五島市		420.10	34,960	37,327	88.85
42212	Saikai- shi	西海市		241.59	26,777	28,691	118.76
42213	Ounces- shi	雲仙市		214.31	41,728	44,115	205.85
42214	Minami-Shimabara- shi	南島原市		170.11	43.006	46,535	273.56
42307	Nagayo- chō	長与町	Nishi-Sonogi	28.73	41,630	42,548	1480.96
42308	Togitsu-cho	時津町	Nishi-Sonogi	20.94	29,375	29,804	1423.30
42321	Higashi-Sonogi-chō	東彼杵町	Higashi-Sonogi	74.28	7792	8298	111.71
42322	Kawatana-cho	川棚町	Higashi-Sonogi	37.25	13,528	14,067	377.64
42323	Hasami-cho	波佐見町	Higashi-Sonogi	56.00	14,494	14,891	265.91
42383	Ojika-cho	小値賀町	Kita-Matsuura	25.52	2316	2560	100.31
42391	Saza-cho	佐々町	Kita-Matsuura	32.27	13,826	13,626	422.25
42411	Shin-Kamigotō-chō	新上五島町	Minami-Matsuura	213.99	18.008	19,718	92.14
Nagasaki Prefecture		長崎県	4 circles	4,130.88	1.325.205	1,377,187	333.39

swell

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

Regional offices

By 2004, were on the island of Iki , the Gotō Islands and the island of Tsushima , the sub-prefectures ( 支庁 , shichō ) Iki , Gotō and Tsushima . In 2004 these were replaced by the regional offices of the same name ( 地方局 , chihō kyoku ).

Biggest places

Census year	Residents
2015	2010	2005	2000
Nagasaki	429.508	443,766	442,699	423.167
Sasebo	255.439	261.101	248.041	240,838
Isahaya	138,078	140.752	144.034	95.182
Ōmura	92,757	90,517	88.040	84,414
Minami-Shimabara	46,535	50,363	——	——
Shimabara	45,436	47,455	38,316	39,605
Ounces	44,115	47,245	——	——
Gotō	37,327	40,622	44,765	——
Hirado	31,920	34,905	38,389	23,900
Tsushima	31,457	34,407	38,481	——
Saikai	28,691	31,176	33,680	——
Iki	27,103	29,377	31,414	——
Matsuura	23,309	25,145	21,221	22,082
Fukue	——	——	——	27,662

March 1, 2004: 6 parishes merge to form Tsushima city .
March 1, 2004: 4 municipalities merge to form the city of Iki .
August 1, 2004: The city of Fukue and 5 other communities form the city of Gotō .
April 1, 2005: The community Sakai (-chō) integrates 4 communities and is raised to a district-free city.
October 11, 2005: 7 municipalities merge to form the city of Unzen .
March 31, 2006: 8 parishes merge to form the city of Minami-Shimabara .

Population development in the prefecture

Census population
Census year	Total population	male population	female population	Gender ratio men to 1000 women	Area in km ²	Population density per km ²
1920	673.895	329,962	343.933	959	2443.59	275.8
1925	684.831	336.223	348,608	965	2443.90	280.2
1930	691,565	337.996	353,569	956	2443.90	283.0
1935	686.117	332.764	353.353	942	2449.03	280.2
1940	701.517	343.047	358,470	957	2449.03	286.5
1945	830.431	379.361	451.070	841	2449.03	339.1
1950	945.082	455.824	489.258	932	2403.74	393.2
1955	973.749	470,437	503.312	935	2403.50	405.1
1960	942,874	448,797	494.077	908	2403.50	392.3
1965	871.885	410.937	460,948	892	2406.17	362.4
1970	838.468	393,631	444,837	885	2410.91	347.8
1975	837.674	394,661	443.013	891	2417.87	346.5
1980	865,574	410.912	454,662	904	2432.71	355.8
1985	880.013	417,308	462.705	902	2433.39	361.6
1990	877.851	414.673	463.178	895	2438.76	360.0
1995	884.316	418,666	465,650	899	2438.99	362.6
2000	876.654	414.377	462.277	896	2439.23	359.4
2005	866.369	408.230	458.139	891	2439.58	355.1
2010	849,788	400.136	449,652	890	2439.65	348.3
2015	832.832	393.073	439,759	894	2440.68	341.2