Shimane Prefecture

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Shimane-ken
島 根 県
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Basic data
Administrative headquarters : Matsue
Region : Chūgoku
Main island : Honshu
Area : 6,708.07  km²
Water content: 2.7  %
Residents : 673,891
(October 1, 2019)
Population density : 100 inhabitants per km²
Counties : 5
Municipalities : 19th
ISO 3166-2 : JP-32
Governor : Tatsuya Maruyama
Website: www.pref.shimane.lg.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Shimane Prefecture Flag
Prefecture tree : Japanese black pine
Prefecture flower : Shrub peony
Vogel prefecture : swan
Fish prefecture : Flying fish
Prefecture song : Usumurasaki no sanmyaku
("light purple mountain range")

The Shimane Prefecture ( Jap. 島根県 , Shimane-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan . It is located in the Chūgoku region on the island of Honshū . The seat of the prefecture administration is Matsue .

geography

Shimane is one of the two most rural and sparsely populated prefectures in Japan , along with the neighboring prefecture of Tottori . Shimane extends roughly from southwest to northeast and is separated from the economically much more important east coast by the Chūgoku Mountains. The prefecture is located on the Sea of ​​Japan and is bordered by Yamaguchi Prefecture to the south and Hiroshima Prefecture to the east . In the northeast is the Tottori Prefecture. Most of the prefecture's larger cities and towns are located on the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan, which is also where the prefecture's north-south main traffic axis runs.
The prefecture has the following border points:

  • in the east: 133 ° 23'13 "east longitude - Okinoshima-chō
  • in the west: 131 ° 40'04 "east longitude - Tsuwano-chō
  • in the south: 34 ° 18'09 "north latitude - Yoshika-chō
  • in the north: 37 ° 14'39 "north latitude - Okinoshima-chō

On the mainland, the eastern and northern border points are perceived by the city of Matsue :

  • 133 ° 19'37 east longitude
  • 35 ° 36'21 "north latitude

The territory of the prefecture also includes the Oki Islands, some 70 kilometers off the coast in the Sea of ​​Japan . The former province moved from Tottori Prefecture to Shimane in 1904 .

politics

Political groups in the prefecture parliament
(as of May 14, 2019)
      
A total of 37 seats
  • Jiyūminshutō Shimane kengikai giin renmei (~ "Association of LDP MPs [in] the Shimane Prefectural Parliament "): 16
  • Shimane kengikai jiyūminshutō (~ " LDP [in] Shimane Prefectural Parliament "): 10
  • Minshu kenmin club ("Democratic Prefectural Citizens Club "; with KDP , DVP ): 5
  • Kōmeitō (non-attached): 2
  • CPY (non-attached): 2
  • Other non-affiliated lots: 2

Zembē Mizoguchi retired from Shimane in 2019 after three terms as governor. In the uniform regional elections in April 2019 , the former MIC official Tatsuya Maruyama, supported by the LDP Shimane, prevailed against the LDP Japan-supported Seiji Ōba and two other candidates as successors. At the same time, the LDP won an absolute majority with 19 seats in the 37-member prefectural parliament, twelve seats went to candidates without party nominations.

In the national parliament , Shimane is represented by two directly elected members of the Shūgiin , for the Sangiin Shimane forms a common constituency with the neighboring Tottori. The Shūgiin constituencies , originally three after the electoral reform of the 1990s and now two , went to the LDP in the 2017 election as well as continuously since 1996, namely to Hiroyuki Hosoda , head of the LDP's strongest faction since 2014, and Wataru Takeshita , brother of the former Party chairman Noboru Takeshita , who took over his brother's former faction in 2018. In the Sangiin, Shimane lost its independent representation in the 2016 and 2019 elections and is now part of the joint single-mandate constituency of Tottori-Shimane. However, the LDP uses the tokutei-waku system for proportional representation, which was introduced in 2019 , to give the LDP prefectural associations affected by the constituency association secure seats in the proportional representation: In 2019, Yasushi Miura from Shimane was given second place on the LDP list in the proportional representation constituency.

Shimane is one of the financially weakest prefectures in the country and can only cover around a quarter of its theoretically calculated financial needs from its own income.

tourism

The main tourist attraction in Shimane is the Izumo-Taisha shrine, located near the city of Izumo , one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Japan. In the area of ​​the prefecture there are also some ski areas, which in winter attract skiers and snowboarders from nearby Hiroshima .

Administrative division

When the prefectures were set up during the Meiji Restoration in 1889, Shimane was formed from the independent city of Matsue, 8 small towns belonging to the county and 269 villages (in 16 counties). As a result of incorporations and mergers, the number of municipalities fell to 19 by 2011 (1950: 247 - 1954: 158 - 1956: 75 - 1970: 1959). The prefecture is divided into 8 independent cities ( Shi ), 10 small towns ( Chō ) and a village ( Son ), the latter organized in 5 districts ( Gun ). Matsue , the seat of the prefecture administration, has also been a "core city" ( chūkakushi ) since April 2018 .
In the table below, the districts ( ) are shown in italics, below each (indented) the small towns ( ) and the village ( ) 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 4 independent cities.

code Surname Area (in km²) population Population
density (inh / km²)
Rōmaji Kanji 01.10.2017 1 01.10.2018 3 01/10/2015 2
32201 Matsue- shi 松江 市 572.99 204,428 206.230 359.92
32202 Hamada- shi 浜 田 市 690.68 55,772 58.105 84.13
32203 Izumo- shi 出 雲 市 624.36 172,947 171,938 275.38
32204 Masuda- shi 益田 市 733.19 45,911 47,718 65.08
32205 Ōda -shi 大田 市 435.71 33,417 35.166 80.71
32206 Yasugi- shi 安 来 市 420.93 38.032 39,528 93.91
32207 Gotsu- shi 江津 市 268.24 23,582 24,468 91.22
32209 Unnan -shi 雲南 市 553.18 37.012 39,032 70.56
32340 Nita-gun 仁 多 郡 368.01 12,175 13,063 35.5
32343   Okuizumo-chō 奥 出 雲 町 368.01 12,175 13,063 35.5
32380 Iishi-gun 飯 石 郡 242.88 4772 5031 20.71
32386   Iinan-cho 飯 南 町 242.88 4772 5031 20.71
32440 Ōchi-gun 邑 智 郡 808.63 18,286 19,443 24.04
32441   Kawamoto-machi 川 本 町 106.43 3183 3442 32.34
32448   Misato-cho 美 郷 町 282.92 4534 4900 17.32
32449   Ōnan -chō 邑 南 町 419.29 10,569 11.101 26.48
32500 Kanoashi-.gun 鹿 足 郡 643.54 13,343 14,027 21.8
32501   Tsuwano- cho 津 和 野 町 307.03 7197 7653 24.93
32505   Yoshika-cho 吉 賀 町 336.50 6146 6374 18.94
32520 Oki-gun 隠 岐 郡 345.92 19,949 20,603 59.56
32525   Ama-cho 海士 町 33.44 2296 2353 70.36
32526   Nishinoshima-chō 西 ノ 島 町 55.96 2886 3027 54.09
32527   Chibu-mura 知 夫 村 13.70 658 615 44.89
32528   Okinoshima- chō 隠 岐 の 島 町 242.82 14,109 14,608 60.16
Shi-bu ( All shi , part of urban districts) 市 部 4299.28 611.101 622.185 144.72
Gun-bu ( All gun , proportion of counties) 郡 部 2408.98 68,525 72.167 29.96
32000 Shimane-ken (Shimane Prefecture) 島 根 県 6708.26 679.626 694.352 103.51

swell

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

Biggest places

Existing and former cities (-shi)
Census year Residents
2015 2010 2005 2000
Matsue 206.230 194.258 196,603 152.616
Izumo 171,938 143,796 146.307 87,330
Hamada 58.105 61,713 63,046 47,187
Masuda 47,718 50,015 52,368 50.128
Yasugi 39,528 41,836 43,839 30,520
Unnecessary 39,032 41,917 44,403 ——
Oda 35.166 37,996 40,703 33,609
Gotsu 24,468 25,697 27,774 25,773
Hirata —— —— —— 29.006

November 1, 2004 - The independent city of Unnan is formed from 6 municipalities.
March 22, 2005 - The city of Hirata is incorporated into the city of Izumo .

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 714.712 354,959 359.753 987 6618.04 108.0
1925 722.402 359.987 362.415 993 6618.04 109.2
1930 739.507 368,888 370.619 995 6618.04 111.7
1935 747.119 373.292 373,827 999 6624.60 112.8
1940 740.940 367,855 373.085 986 6624.60 111.8
1945 860.275 395.360 464.915 850 6624.60 129.9
1950 912,551 444.355 468.196 949 6626.29 137.7
1955 929.066 456.730 472,336 967 6625.27 140.2
1960 888.886 432,481 456.405 948 6625.26 134.2
1965 821.620 393,670 427,950 920 6625.95 124.0
1970 773,575 367,658 405.917 906 6626.12 116.7
1975 768.886 367.060 401,826 913 6626.80 116.0
1980 784.795 377,499 407.296 927 6627.41 118.4
1985 794.629 382,893 411.736 930 6628.42 119.9
1990 781.021 373.618 407,403 917 6626.24 117.9
1995 771.441 368,789 402,652 916 6706.70 115.0
2000 761.503 363.994 397.509 916 6707.29 113.5
2005 742.223 353.703 388,520 910 6707.56 110.7
2010 717.397 342.991 374.406 916 6707.95 106.9
2015 694.352 333.112 361.240 922 6708.24 103.5

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. GSI - the geographical cornerstones of Shimane Prefecture and its communities (Japan.) Accessed on January 16, 2019
  2. Shimane Prefectural Parliament : MPs , MPs by parliamentary group (pdf), accessed on August 9, 2019.
  3. 島 根 県 議 選 各 党 議席 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. April 7, 2019, Retrieved May 9, 2019 (Japanese).
  4. [1] The municipalities and counties in Shimane Prefecture (in Japan.)
  5. 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. 76: 32 Shimane-ken (Japanese), accessed on 1 January 2019
  6. e-stat (English), accessed on January 1, 2019
  7. 簡 単 検 索 ・ 詳細 検 索 ・ 検 索 サ ン プ ル , accessed January 1, 2019 (Japanese)
  8. e-Stat database , accessed on December 16, 2018 (English)

Coordinates: 35 ° 13 '  N , 132 ° 40'  E