Tottori Prefecture

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Tottori-ken
鳥取 県
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Basic data
Administrative headquarters : Tottori
Region : Chūgoku
Main island : Honshu
Area : 3,507.13  km²
Water content: 0.7  %
Residents : 555,663
(October 1, 2019)
Population density : 158 inhabitants per km²
Counties : 5
Municipalities : 19th
ISO 3166-2 : JP-31
Governor : Shinji Hirai
Website: www.pref.tottori.lg.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Flag of Tottori Prefecture
Prefecture tree : Daisen -Kyaraboku ( Taxus cuspidata var. Nana )
Prefecture flower : Pyrus pyrifolia var. Culta ' Nijisseiki '
Vogel prefecture : Mandarin duck
Fish prefecture : Paralichthys olivaceus
Prefecture song : Waki agaru chikara
(" Emerging Force")
Citizens Day: 12th September

The Tottori Prefecture ( Jap. 鳥取県 , Tottori-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan , the smallest by population. It is located in the Chūgoku region on the main island of Honshū of Japan. The seat of the prefecture administration is the city of the same name Tottori .

history

The old imperial chronicles Kojiki and Nihonshoki from the early 8th century tell of episodes that are said to have occurred at the time of Emperor Suinin in the year 213. When Prince Homutsuwake spoke for the first time at the age of 30 after seeing a swan, Suinin promised to reward whoever caught the swan, whereupon Ame-no-yu-kawa-tana the title ( kabane ) of miyatsuko no totori 'head of the Vogelfang [= totori ] guild 'received.

The Japanese dictionary Wamyō Ruijushō from the year 938 for the district Aimi a village with the name Tottori in the area of ​​today's city of the same name.

During the Edo period , the fiefdom ( han ) Tottori, which was ruled by the Ikeda , came into being in the provinces of Hōki and Inaba . With the abolition of the Han in 1871, the fiefdom became the first Tottori Prefecture, but in 1876 it was added to Shimane Prefecture . In 1881 it was spun off from this within its current boundaries.

politics

Political groups in the prefecture parliament
(as of 2019)
    
A total of 35 seats
  • LDP : 20
  • kaiha minshu ("Fraktion Demokratie [ie / en]"; with DVP , KDP ): 8
  • Kōmeitō : 3
  • Non-attached: 4

Governor Tottoris has been Shinji Hirai since 2007 and was confirmed for a fourth term in the unified regional elections in April 2019 . In the simultaneous parliamentary election, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) remained clearly the strongest party with 14 seats and continues to dominate parliament together with conservative independents.

In the national parliament , Tottori is represented by two directly elected members in the Chamber of Deputies , even after the 2017 election the Liberal Democrats Ryōsei Akazawa (constituency 2, 2017: 53%), grandson of Interior Minister Masamichi Akazawa , and Shigeru Ishiba (constituency 1, 2017: 84%) against only one, communist challenger), son of Interior Minister and Governor Jirō Ishiba . In the council house , Tottori and the neighboring Shimane have formed the unified Tottori-Shimane constituency since 2016 and, with the 2019 election, lost its independent representation in both halves of the chamber. However, the LDP has implemented a change in proportional representation for 2019, with which candidates can be excluded from voter preferences and placed on proportional representation lists. The LDP uses the system to continue to grant the party associations from rural prefectures affected by the introduction of the unified constituencies, with mostly secure LDP seats, a safe representation and thus parliamentary say in the award of infrastructure projects and grants from the central government. In 2019, Shōji Mataichi from Tottori received the (successful) LDP candidacy in the common constituency of Tottori-Shimane, while Yasushi Miura from Shimane was ranked second in the proportional representation.

Tottori is one of the financially weakest prefectures in the country.

Administrative division

The prefecture is divided into 4 independent cities ( Shi ), 14 small towns ( Chō ) and one village ( Son ), the latter organized in 5 districts ( Gun ). Tottori . Since April 2018, the seat of the prefecture administration has also been a "core city" ( chūkakushi ).
In the table below, the districts ( 郡 ) are shown in italics, below each (indented) the small towns ( 町 ) and the village ( 村 ) 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
31201 Tottori -shi 鳥取 市 765.31 190.090 193.717 253.12
31202 Yonago- shi 米 子 市 132.42 148.262 149.313 1127.57
31203 Kurayoshi- shi 倉 吉 市 272.06 47,439 49,044 180.27
31204 Sakaiminato- shi 境 港市 29.10 33,144 34,174 1174.36
31300 Iwami-gun 岩 美 郡 122.32 11,108 11,485 93.89
31302   Iwami-cho 岩 美 町 122.32 11,108 11,485 93.89
31320 Yazu-gun 八 頭 郡 630.58 25,997 27,408 43.46
31325   Wakasa-cho 若 桜 町 199.18 3055 3269 16.41
31328   Chizu-cho 智 頭 町 224.70 6689 7154 31.84
31329   Yazu-cho 八 頭 町 206.71 16,253 16,985 82.17
31360 Tōhaku-gun 東 伯 郡 508.36 53,606 55.276 108.73
31364   Misasa-cho 三 朝 町 233.52 6,205 6,490 27.79
31370   Yurihama-cho 湯 梨 浜 町 77.94 16,238 16,550 212.34
31371   Kotoura-cho 琴 浦 町 139.97 16,757 17,416 124.43
31372   Hokuei-cho 北 栄 町 56.94 14,406 14,820 260.27
31380 Saihaku-gun 西伯 郡 447.51 40,771 41,977 93.8
31384   For that -son 日 吉 津 村 4.20 3573 3439 818.81
31386   Daisen-cho 大 山 町 189.83 15,846 16,470 86.76
31389   Nambu-cho 南部 町 114.03 10,615 10,950 96.03
31390   Hōki-chō 伯 耆 町 139.44 10,737 11,118 79.73
31400 Hino-gun 日 野 郡 599.46 10.100 11,047 18.43
31401   Nichinan-cho 日南 町 340.96 4316 4765 13.98
31402   Hino-cho 日 野 町 133.98 2994 3278 24.47
31403   Kofu-cho 江 府 町 124.52 2790 3004 24.12
Shi-bu ( All shi , part of urban districts) 市 部 1198.90 418.935 426.248 355.53
Gun-bu ( All gun , proportion of counties) 郡 部 2308.24 141,582 147.193 63.77
31000 Tottori-ken (Tottori Prefecture) 鳥取 県 3507.13 560.517 573,441 163.51

swell

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

Biggest places

Independent cities (-shi)
Census year Residents
2015 2010 2005 2000
Tottori 193.717 197,449 201.740 150,439
Yonago 149.313 148.271 149,584 138,756
Kurayoshi 49,044 50,720 52,592 49,711
Sakaiminato 34,174 35,259 36,459 36,843

There were no changes in the independent cities during the period mentioned.

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 454.675 222,802 231.873 960.9 3489.48 130.30
1925 472.230 230,580 241,650 954.2 3489.48 135.33
1930 489.266 239.084 250.182 955.6 3489.48 140.21
1935 490.461 239,301 251.160 952.8 3489.48 140.55
1940 484,390 233.964 250,426 934.3 3489.48 138.81
1945 563.220 255.525 307,695 830.4 3489.48 161.41
1950 600.177 289,787 310,390 933.6 3488.50 172.04
1955 614.259 297.015 317.244 936.2 3488.39 176.09
1960 599.135 286.716 312,419 917.7 3488.39 171.75
1965 579.853 275,572 304.281 905.6 3489.02 166.19
1970 568,777 269.497 299.280 900.5 3491.70 162.89
1975 581.311 277.151 304.160 911.2 3491.78 166.48
1980 604.221 289,946 314.275 922.6 3492.34 173.01
1985 616.024 295,511 320,513 922.0 3492.70 176.37
1990 615.722 294,899 320,823 919.2 3497.79 176.03
1995 614.929 294,414 320,515 918.6 3507.01 175.34
2000 613.289 293,403 319,886 917.2 3507.17 174.87
2005 607.012 290.190 316.822 915.9 3507.25 173.07
2010 588,667 280.701 307.966 911.5 3507.28 167.84
2015 573,441 273,705 299.736 913.2 3507.05 163.51

  • Outline

  • Tottori Kannon-in

  • dried squid

  • Sand dunes

literature

  • Ronald J. DiCenzo: Daimyo, domain and retainer band in the seventeenth century: a study of institutional development in Echizen, Tottori and Matsue. Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ., PhD thesis. Published by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1978.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://had0.big.ous.ac.jp/plantsdic/gymnospermae/taxaceae/kyaraboku/daisenkyaraboku.htm
  2. ↑ Tottori Prefectural Parliament : MPs by parliamentary group , accessed on August 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ 統一 地方 選 2019 鳥取 県 議 選 各 党 議席 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. April 8, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2019 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 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. 75: 31 Tottori-ken (Japanese), accessed on 1 January 2019
  5. ↑ e-stat (English), accessed on January 1, 2019
  6. ↑ 簡 単 検 索 ・ 詳細 検 索 ・ 検 索 サ ン プ ル , accessed January 1, 2019 (Japanese)
  7. ↑ e-Stat database , accessed on January 1, 2019 (English)

Coordinates: 35 ° 27 '  N , 133 ° 46'  E