Toyama prefecture

Toyama-ken ; 富山県
Basic data
Administrative headquarters :	Toyama
Region :	Chūbu
Main island :	Honshu
Area :	4,247.59 km²
Water content:	0.1 %
Residents :	1,042,998 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	246 inhabitants per km²
Counties :	2
Municipalities :	15th
ISO 3166-2 :	JP-16
Governor :	Takakazu Ishii
Website:	www.pref.toyama.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Prefecture tree :	Tateyama crescent fir
Prefecture flower :	tulip
Vogel prefecture :	Ptarmigan
Fish prefecture :	Glowing squid , Pasiphaea japonica , Seriola quinqueradiata
Prefecture mammal :	Japanese serau
Prefecture song :	Toyama-kenmin no uta; ("Song of the Citizens of Toyama")

The Toyama prefecture ( Jap. 富山県 , Toyama-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan . It is located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshū . The seat of the prefecture administration is Toyama .

geography

Lakes, gorges and high mountains define the image of Toyama Prefecture. The main attractions are the Kurobe Gorge Tateyama District, part of the Chūbu Sangaku National Park , and the coast near Himi , part of the Noto Hantō Quasi National Park . The southwest corner of the prefecture is part of Hakusan National Park .

history

After the Taika reform in 645, the area became Etchu Province . On the upper reaches of the Shokawa River is one of those remote areas that the Taira are said to have settled after they were forced to flee in the 1185 naval battle of Dan-no-ura .

During the Edo period , the province came under the control of the Maeda clan . The current prefecture name is from 1871, the current boundaries were established in 1883.

Itai-Itai disease (chronic cadmium poisoning) also occurred here in the 1950s .

politics

Political groups in the prefecture parliament
(as of 2019)

A total of 40 seats

LDP : 32
SDP : 3
KPY : 2
Kōmeitō : 1
kaiha Shisei ( 至誠 ) (~ "Righteousness faction"): 1
Non-attached: 1

The governor of Toyama has been Takakazu Ishii since 2004 , who was re-elected for a fourth term in October 2016 . In Parliament, which remained Liberal Democratic Party in the elections in April 2019 in possession of a two-thirds majority.

The Liberal Democratic Party is strong in the predominantly rural prefecture: All directly elected representatives in the national parliament - three in the House of Representatives , one for each partial election in the Council House - are Liberal Democrats after the parliamentary elections in 2016 , 2017 and 2019 , namely:

in the House of Representatives
- for constituency 1, which covers most of Toyama city, Hiroaki Tabata (LDP, 3rd term), previously a member of the prefectural parliament for a short time, before that in the Toyama City Council,
- for constituency 2 in the south and east Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi (LDP, 8th term of office), former State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture,
- for constituency 3, which covers the west with Toyama's second largest city Takaoka, Keiichirō Tachibana (LDP, 4th term), previously mayor of Takaoka and
in the council house
- until 2022 Kōtarō Nogami (LDP, 3rd term), since 2016 Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat , and
- until 2025 Shigeru Dōko (LDP, 2nd term), previously Mayor of the city of Himi since 1998.

Administrative division

When today's community forms were introduced in 1889, Toyama was divided into 271 communities, including the two independent cities of Toyama and Takaoka. Since April 2005, the prefectural seat has also been a "core city" .
The number of municipalities fell in almost 100 years from 270 (1920) through 213 (1950) and 53 (1955) to currently (since 2006) 15. Ten urban districts ( -shi ) and four district-related cities ( -machi ) and one village ( -mura ) shows the current structure.

In the table below, the two districts ( 郡 , -gun ) are shown in italics, below (indented) the small towns ( 町 , -machi ) and the village ( 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 ).

The municipalities of Toyama Prefecture

independent city (-shi)
Small town (-chō)	Village (-mura)

List of parishes in Toyama 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
16201	Toyama- shi	富山市	1241.77	417,332	418,686	337.17
16202	Takaoka- shi	高岡市	209.57	169.277	172.125	821.32
16204	Uozu- shi	魚津市	200.61	41,874	42,935	214.02
16205	Himi- shi	氷見市	230.56	45,791	47.992	208.15
16206	Namerikawa -shi	滑川市	54.63	32,494	32,755	599.58
16207	Kurobe- shi	黒部市	426.31	40,474	40.991	96.15
16208	Tonami- shi	砺波市	127.03	48,377	49,000	385.74
16209	Oyabe -shi	小矢部市	134.07	29,394	30,399	226.74
16210	Nanto- shi	南砺市	668.64	49.196	51,327	76.76
16211	Imizu- shi	射水市	109.43	91.129	92,308	843.53
16320	Nakaniikawa-gun	中新川郡	547.46	48,931	50,229	91.75
16321	Funahashi-mura	舟橋村	3.47	3055	2982	859.37
16322	Kamiichi-machi	上市町	236.71	20.171	20,930	88.42
16323	Tateyama-machi	立山町	307.29	25,705	26,317	85.64
16340	Shimoniikawa gun	下新川郡	297.55	35,977	37,581	126.30
16342	Nyuzen-machi	入善町	71.25	24,480	25,335	355.58
16343	Asahi-machi	朝日町	226.30	11,497	12,246	54.11

Shi-bu ( All Shi , proportion of urban districts)	市部	3402.60	965.338	978.518	287.58
Shi-bu ( All Shi , proportion of urban districts)	市部	845.01	84.908	87,810	103.92

16000	Toyama-Ken (Toyama Prefecture)	富山県	4247.61	1,050,246	1,066,328	251.04

swell

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

Biggest places

Current and former independent cities (-shi)
census results on October 1st
Census year	Residents
2015	2010	2005	2000
Toyama	418,686	421,953	421.239	325,700
Takaoka	172.125	176.061	167,685	172.184
Imizu	92,308	93,588	——	——
Nanto	51,327	54,724	58,140	——
Tonami	49,000	49,410	49,429	40,744
Himi	47.992	51,726	54,495	56,680
Uozu	42,935	44,959	46,331	47,136
Kurobe	40.991	41,852	36,543	36,531
Namerikawa	32,755	33,676	34.002	33,363
Shinminato	——	——	36,547	37.287
Oyabe	30,399	32,067	33,533	34,625

November 1, 2004 - The independent city of Nanto is formed from eight municipalities.
November 1, 2005 - The independent city of Imizu is formed from four parishes and the independent city of Shinminato .

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	724.276	354.775	369.501	960	4257.42	170.1
1925	749.243	368,593	380,650	968	4257.42	176.0
1930	778.953	381,809	397.144	961	4257.42	183.0
1935	798.890	388.771	410.119	948	4257.42	187.7
1940	822,569	401.261	421,308	952	4257.42	193.2
1945	953.834	442,490	511,344	865	4257.42	224.0
1950	1,008,790	488,850	519.940	940	4257.21	237.0
1955	1,021,121	494.109	527.012	938	4252.03	240.2
1960	1,032,614	500,545	532.069	941	4252.03	242.9
1965	1,025,465	491,662	533,803	921	4252.16	241.2
1970	1,029,695	492,492	537.203	917	4252.16	242.2
1975	1,070,791	514.991	555,800	927	4252.16	251.8
1980	1,103,459	532,686	570.773	933	4252.16	259.5
1985	1,118,369	538.955	579.414	930	4252.32	263.0
1990	1.120.161	538.640	581,521	926	4246.09	263.8
1995	1,123,125	540.921	582.204	929	4246.47	264.5
2000	1,120,851	540.212	580,639	930	4247.22	263.9
2005	1,111,729	535.617	576.112	930	4247.39	261.7
2010	1,093,247	526605	566,642	929	4247.61	257.4
2015	1,066,328	515.147	551.181	935	4247.61	251.0

Gokayama
Gokayama
The main building of the Prefectural Administration in the Shinsogawa District of Toyama City.
The parliament building in the same building complex.