List of prefectures of Japan
Japan is divided into 47 prefectures ( -to / -dō / -fu / -ken , in the Empire initially only -fu / -ken ), which form the middle administrative level between the central state and the municipalities ( -shi / -ku / -chō / -son ) . For more information on the role and history of the prefectures, see Prefecture (Japan) .
Today's prefectures
| Surname | "Prefecture" | Japanese |
Capital 46 - shi , 1 - ku |
Classic 8 regions |
Main + other islands (1986) |
Population ( VZ 2015) |
Area in km² |
EW / km² |
Circles -gun (2019) |
Parishes - shi / ku / chō / son (2019) |
ISO 3166-2 |
GDP in billion yen (nominal, FY 2014) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aichi | -ken | 愛 知 県 | Nagoya | Chūbu | Honshu + 41 | 7,483,128 | 5,165.04 | 1,447.3 | 7th | 54 | JP-23 | 35,990 |
| Akita | -ken | 秋田 県 | Akita | Tōhoku | Honshu + 47 | 1,023,119 | 11,636.25 | 87.9 | 6th | 25th | JP-05 | 3,495 |
| Aomori | -ken | 青森 県 | Aomori | Tōhoku | Honshu + 114 | 1,308,265 | 9,644.54 | 135.6 | 8th | 40 | JP-02 | 4,428 |
| Chiba | -ken | 千葉 県 | Chiba | Kanto | Honshu + 95 | 6,222,666 | 5,156.70 | 1,206.1 | 6th | 54 | JP-12 | 20,045 |
| Ehime | -ken | 愛媛 県 | Matsuyama | Shikoku | Shikoku + 270 | 1,385,262 | 5,678.18 | 244.1 | 7th | 20th | JP-38 | 4,756 |
| Fukui | -ken | 福井 県 | Fukui | Chūbu | Honshu + 58 | 786.740 | 4,189.83 | 187.8 | 7th | 17th | JP-18 | 3.130 |
| Fukuoka | -ken | 福岡 県 | Fukuoka | Kyushu | Kyushu + 62 | 5,101,556 | 4,977.24 | 1,023.0 | 11 | 60 | JP-40 | 18,112 |
| Fukushima | -ken | 福島 県 | Fukushima | Tōhoku | Honshu + 13 | 1,914,039 | 13,782.76 | 138.9 | 13 | 59 | JP-07 | 7,400 |
| Gifu | -ken | 岐阜 県 | Gifu | Chūbu | Honshū (internal pref.) | 2,031,903 | 10,621.17 | 191.3 | 9 | 42 | JP-21 | 7.209 |
| Gunma | -ken | 群 馬 県 | Maebashi | Kanto | Honshū (internal pref.) | 1,973,115 | 6,362.33 | 310.1 | 7th | 35 | JP-10 | 8.005 |
| Hiroshima | -ken | 広 島 県 | Hiroshima | Chūgoku | Honshu + 142 | 2,843,990 | 8,479.58 | 335.2 | 5 | 23 | JP-34 | 11,238 |
| Hokkai [-dō] | -do | 北海道 | Sapporo | Hokkaidō | Hokkaidō + 508 | 5,381,733 | 83,456.87 | 64.5 | ? | 185 | JP-01 | 18,485 |
| Hyogo | -ken | 兵 庫 県 | Kobe | Kinki | Honshu + 110 | 5,534,800 | 8,396.13 | 658.8 | 8th | 41 | JP-28 | 19,788 |
| Ibaraki | -ken | 茨城 県 | Mito | Kanto | Honshu + 7 | 2,916,976 | 6,095.72 | 478.4 | 7th | 44 | JP-08 | 11,612 |
| Ishikawa | -ken | 石川 県 | Kanazawa | Chūbu | Honshu + 110 | 1,154,008 | 4,185.66 | 275.7 | 5 | 19th | JP-17 | 4,588 |
| Iwate | -ken | 岩手 県 | Morioka | Tōhoku | Honshu + 286 | 1,279,594 | 15,278.89 | 83.8 | 10 | 33 | JP-03 | 4,647 |
| Kagawa | -ken | 香 川 県 | Takamatsu | Shikoku | Shikoku + 112 | 976.263 | 1,876.53 | 520.1 | 5 | 17th | JP-37 | 3,672 |
| Kagoshima | -ken | 鹿 児 島 県 | Kagoshima | Kyushu | Kyushu + 605 | 1,648,177 | 9,188.78 | 179.4 | 8th | 43 | JP-46 | 5,330 |
| Kanagawa | -ken | 神奈川 県 | Yokohama | Kanto | Honshu + 27 | 9,126,214 | 2,415.86 | 3,777.4 | 6th | 33 | JP-14 | 30,322 |
| Kochi | -ken | 高 知 県 | Kochi | Shikoku | Shikoku + 159 | 728.276 | 7,105.16 | 102.5 | 6th | 34 | JP-39 | 2,350 |
| Kumamoto | -ken | 熊 本 県 | Kumamoto | Kyushu | Kyushu + 178 | 1,786,170 | 7,404.73 | 241.1 | 11 | 45 | JP-43 | 5,600 |
| Kyoto | -fu | 京都 府 | Kyoto | Kinki | Honshu + 49 | 2,610,353 | 4,613.21 | 566.0 | 6th | 26th | JP-26 | 10,054 |
| Mie | -ken | 三重 県 | Tsu | Kinki | Honshu + 233 | 1,815,865 | 5,777.27 | 314.5 | 7th | 29 | JP-24 | 7,656 |
| Miyagi | -ken | 宮城 県 | Sendai | Tōhoku | Honshu + 311 | 2,333,899 | 7,285.76 | 320.5 | 10 | 35 | JP-04 | 8,896 |
| Miyazaki | -ken | 宮 崎 県 | Miyazaki | Kyushu | Kyushu + 179 | 1,104,069 | 7,735.99 | 142.7 | 6th | 26th | JP-45 | 3,643 |
| Nagano | -ken | 長野 県 | Nagano | Chūbu | Honshū (internal pref.) | 2,098,804 | 13,562.23 | 154.8 | 14th | 77 | JP-20 | 7,887 |
| Nagasaki | -ken | 長崎 県 | Nagasaki | Kyushu | Kyushu + 971 | 1,377,187 | 4,105.33 | 333.3 | 4th | 21st | JP-42 | 4,310 |
| Nara | -ken | 奈良 県 | Nara | Kinki | Honshū (internal pref.) | 1,364,316 | 3,691.09 | 369.6 | 7th | 39 | JP-29 | 3,541 |
| Niigata | -ken | 新潟 県 | Niigata | Chūbu | Honshu + 92 | 2,304,264 | 12,583.81 | 183.1 | 9 | 30th | JP-15 | 8,699 |
| Ōita | -ken | 大分 県 | Ōita | Kyushu | Kyushu + 109 | 1,166,338 | 6,339.71 | 183.9 | 3 | 18th | JP-44 | 4.143 |
| Okayama | -ken | 岡山 県 | Okayama | Chūgoku | Honshu + 87 | 1,921,525 | 7,113.21 | 270.1 | 10 | 27 | JP-33 | 7,243 |
| Okinawa | -ken | 沖 縄 県 | Naha | Kyushu | Okinawa + 362 | 1,433,566 | 2,276.15 | 628.5 | 5 | 41 | JP-47 | 4,051 |
| Osaka | -fu | 大阪 府 | Osaka | Kinki | Honshu + 0 | 8,839,469 | 1,898.47 | 4,639.7 | 5 | 43 | JP-27 | 37,934 |
| saga | -ken | 佐賀 県 | saga | Kyushu | Kyushu + 55 | 832.832 | 2,439.65 | 341.2 | 6th | 20th | JP-41 | 2,737 |
| Saitama | -ken | 埼 玉 県 | Saitama | Kanto | Honshū (internal pref.) | 7,266,534 | 3,798.13 | 1,913.3 | 8th | 63 | JP-11 | 20,914 |
| Shiga | -ken | 滋 賀 県 | Ōtsu | Kinki | Honshū (internal pref.) | 1,412,916 | 4,017.36 | 351.7 | 3 | 19th | JP-25 | 5,846 |
| Shimane | -ken | 島 根 県 | Matsue | Chūgoku | Honshu + 369 | 694.352 | 6,707.95 | 103.5 | 5 | 19th | JP-32 | 2,382 |
| Shizuoka | -ken | 静岡 県 | Shizuoka | Chūbu | Honshu + 106 | 3,700,305 | 7,780.42 | 475.8 | 5 | 35 | JP-22 | 15,443 |
| Tochigi | -ken | 栃 木 県 | Utsunomiya | Kanto | Honshū (internal pref.) | 1,974,255 | 6,408.28 | 308.1 | 5 | 25th | JP-09 | 8,183 |
| Tokyo | -to | 東京 都 | Shinjuku , Tokyo | Kanto | Honshu + 330 | 13,515,271 | 2,187.50 | 6,168.7 | 1 | 62 | JP-13 | 94.902 |
| Tokushima | -ken | 徳 島 県 | Tokushima | Shikoku | Shikoku + 88 | 755.733 | 4,146.67 | 182.2 | 8th | 24 | JP-36 | 3,012 |
| Tottori | -ken | 鳥取 県 | Tottori | Chūgoku | Honshu + 35 | 573,441 | 3,507.28 | 163.5 | 5 | 19th | JP-31 | 1,779 |
| Toyama | -ken | 富山 県 | Toyama | Chūbu | Honshu + 3 | 1,066,328 | 4,247.61 | 251.0 | 2 | 15th | JP-16 | 4,453 |
| Wakayama | -ken | 和 歌 山 県 | Wakayama | Kinki | Honshu + 253 | 963.579 | 4,726.29 | 203.9 | 6th | 30th | JP-30 | 3,579 |
| Yamagata | -ken | 山形 県 | Yamagata | Tōhoku | Honshu + 29 | 1,123,891 | 9,323.46 | 120.6 | 8th | 35 | JP-06 | 3,755 |
| Yamaguchi | -ken | 山口 県 | Yamaguchi | Chūgoku | Honshu + 249 | 1,404,729 | 6,113.95 | 229.8 | 4th | 19th | JP-35 | 5,969 |
| Yamanashi | -ken | 山 梨 県 | Kofu | Chūbu | Honshū (internal pref.) | 834.930 | 4,465.37 | 187.0 | 5 | 27 | JP-19 | 3.119 |
- ↑ A toponymic guideline of the land surveying office for English-language map editors translates -to as "Metropolis" -dō, -fu and -ken as "Prefecture" into English and recommends transcribing separately (e.g. "Hokkai Dō"), s. Kokudo Chiriin (GSI): Toponymic Guidelines for Map Editors and other Editors, JAPAN (Third Edition 2007) . The German-language Wikipedia, on the other hand, mostly uses the widespread translation of all 47 to / dō / fu / ken indiscriminately as "prefecture" and attaches the suffixes in transcriptions, such as for municipalities, counties, city districts, principalities and many other geographical objects in Japan, mostly with a hyphen .
- ↑ a b including the disputed areas "Northern Territories / South Kuril Islands" in Hokkai [-] do, "Takeshima / Dokdo" in Shimane-ken, "Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands" in Okinawa-ken
Former prefectures (incomplete)
The first prefectures (city prefectures -fu and rural prefectures -ken ) emerged in the Meiji Restoration in 1868 in the former shogunate cities and the rural areas controlled directly by the shogunate. In 1869 the status of -fu was reserved for the three most important city prefectures of the empire - Kyōto, Osaka and Tōkyō - all other -fu were converted to -ken . With the abolition of the principalities (-han) in 1871 , the empire was divided into prefectures across the board . Until the 1890s, the present-day prefectures were essentially created through amalgamation in several steps, whereby different regulations still applied for -fu and -ken and the Hokkaidō and Okinawa-ken were only put on an equal footing with the other prefectures of the motherland in the 20th century. In 1888/89/90 the government enacted prefecture rules ( fukensei ), district rules ( gunsei ) and municipal rules ( shisei and chōsonsei ), which were co-designed by Prussian advisors , since then all prefectures have been subdivided into the municipal forms -shi , -chō / -machi and - son / -mura ([district-free] cities, [district] cities and villages, see municipality (Japan) ); The districts (- gun ) , which date back to antiquity and Chinese influences and were initially reactivated in 1878, were finally abolished as an administrative unit in the early 20th century.
Remarks:
- For prefectures (-ken) that were created only briefly when the Han was abolished in 1871 from principalities of the same name ( -han ) , territorially consolidated (en- / exclaves etc.) and still in the year Meiji 4 (greg. 19 Feb. 1871 - Feb. 8, 1872), there are no separate entries. As forerunners, those are listed as -han → -ken and link to the principality.
- The years in the list should refer to Gregorian calendar years even before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1873. Even some Japanese sources ignore the calendar change, which occasionally results in contradicting dates in this list and in sources in European languages.
| Surname | Type |
Kanji ( reformed ) |
Seat of the prefecture administration village / town [part], district , province (today's municipality, [sub /] prefecture) |
from | to | (Main) forerunner successor, notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karafuto | -chō | 樺 太 庁 | - [then: Toyohara, Karafuto] |
1943 | 1945 | before colonial outdoor area (gaichi) , in 1943 in part of the mother country (Naichi) declared initially managed separately from 1947 to Sakhalin Oblast , RSFSR, USSR |
| Hakodate | -ken | 函館 県 | Hakodate, Kameda , Oshima ( Hakodate , Oshima / Hokkaidō ) |
1882 | 1886 |
kaitakushi (settlement office) Hokkaidō-chō |
| Sapporo | -ken | 札幌 県 | Sapporo, Sapporo , Ishikari ( Sapporo , Ishikari / Hokkaidō ) |
1882 | 1886 |
kaitakushi (settlement office) Hokkaidō-chō |
| Nemuro | -ken | 根 室 県 | Nemuro-Umegae, Nemuro , Nemuro ( Nemuro , Nemuro / Hokkaidō ) |
1882 | 1886 |
kaitakushi (settlement office) Hokkaidō-chō |
| Ichinoseki | -ken | 一 関 県 | Ichinoseki, Iwai , Rikuō ( Ichinoseki , Iwate ) |
1871 | 1872 |
Ichinoseki-han → -ken , Esashi-ken , Isawa-ken renamed to Mizusawa-ken |
| Mizusawa | -ken | 水 沢 県 | Mizusawa, Isawa , Rikuchū ( Ōshū , Iwate ) |
1872 | 1875 | Renamed from Ichinoseki-ken to Iwai-ken |
| Iwai | -ken | 磐 井 県 | Ichinoseki, Iwai , Rikuō ( Ichinoseki , Iwate ) |
1875 | 1876 | Renaming of Mizusawa -ken shared
between Iwate-ken and Miyagi-ken |
| Okitama | -ken | 置 賜 県 | Yonezawa, Okitama , Uzen ( Yonezawa , Yamagata ) |
1871 | 1876 |
Yonezawa-han → -ken to Yamagata-ken incorporated |
| Sakata | -ken | 酒 田 県 | Sakata, Akumi , Ugo ( Sakata , Yamagata ) |
1871 | 1875 |
Shōnai-han → -ken , Ōizumi-han → -ken renamed to Tsuruoka-ken |
| Tsuruoka | -ken | 鶴 岡 県 | Tsuruoka, Tagawa , Uzen ( Tsuruoka , Yamagata ) |
1875 | 1876 | Renaming from Sakata-ken to Yamagata-ken incorporated |
| Sendai | -ken | 仙台 県 | Sendai, Miyagi , Rikuzen ( Sendai , Miyagi ) |
1871 | 1872 |
Sendai-han , parts of Kakuda-ken, Tome-ken in Miyagi-ken renamed |
| Taira | -ken | 平 県 | Iwaki-Taira, Iwasaki , Iwaki ( Iwaki , Fukushima ) |
1871 | 1872 | renamed the -han → -ken Nakamura , Iwaki-Taira , Yunagaya , Izumi , Miharu , Tanagura to Iwasaki-ken |
| Iwasaki | -ken | 磐 前 県 | Iwaki-Taira, Iwasaki , Iwaki ( Iwaki , Fukushima ) |
1872 | 1876 | Renaming from Taira-ken to Fukushima-ken incorporated |
| Morioka | -ken | 盛 岡 県 | Morioka, Iwate , Rikuchū ( Morioka , Iwate ) |
1870 | 1872 |
Morioka-han in Iwate-ken renamed |
| Wakamatsu | -ken | 若 松 県 | Wakamatsu, Aizu , Iwashiro ( Aizu-Wakamatsu , Fukushima ) |
1869 | 1876 |
Aizu-han of Fukushima-ken incorporated |
| Ashigara | -ken | 足 柄 県 | Odawara, Ashigara-Shimo , Sagami ( Odawara , Kanagawa ) |
1871 | 1876 |
Odawara-han → -ken , Oginoyamanaka-han → -ken , Nirayama-ken (ex- shogunate domain) shared
between Kanagawa-ken and Shizuoka-ken |
| Iruma | -ken | 入 間 県 | Kawagoe, Iruma , Musashi ( Kawagoe , Saitama ) |
1871 | 1873 |
Kawagoe-han → -ken , parts of Shinagawa-ken (ex-Shogunate domain) shared
between Kumagaya-ken and Kanagawa-ken |
| Inba | -ken | 印 旛 県 | Sakura, Inba , Shimousa ( Sakura , Chiba ) |
1871 | 1873 | the -han → -ken Sakura , Koga , Sekiyado , Yūki , Oyumi , Sogano and Katsushika-ken (ex-Shogunate domain) combined with Kisarazu-ken to Chiba-ken (parts later to Ibaraki , Saitama ) |
| Utsunomiya | -ken | 宇 都 宮 県 | Utsunomiya, Kawachi , Shimotsuke ( Utsunomiya , Tochigi ) |
1871 | 1873 | the -han → -ken Utsunomiya , Otawara , Kurobane , Karasuyama , Motegi according Tochigi-ken incorporated |
| Kisarazu | -ken | 木 更 津 県 | Kaifuchi, Mōda , Kazusa ( Kisarazu , Chiba ) |
1871 | 1873 | the -han → -ken Tateyama , Awa-Katsuyama , Nagao , Hanabusa , Tsurumai , Kururi , Tsurumaki , Ichinomiya , Sakurai , Matsuo , Kikuma , Iino , Ōtaki , Sanuki , Kokubo and Miyazaku-ken (ex-Shogunate domain) with Inba-ken united to Chiba-ken |
| Kumagaya | -ken | 熊 谷 県 | Kumagaya, Ōsato , Musashi ( Kumagaya , Saitama ) |
1873 | 1876 |
Gunma-ken , Iruma -ken shared
between Gunma-ken and Saitama-ken |
| Niihari | -ken | 新 治 県 | Tsuchiura, Niihari , Hitachi ( Tsuchiura , Ibaraki ) |
1871 | 1875 | the -han → -ken Asō , Ishioka , Tsuchiura , Shizuku , Ushiku , Matsukawa , Ryūgasaki , Tako , Omigawa , Takaoka and Wakamori-ken (ex-Shogunate domain) shared
between Ibaraki-ken and Chiba-ken |
| Tokyo | -fu | 東京 府 | Uchisaiwai, - (in MA: Toshima ) , Musashi ( Chiyoda , Tokyo ) |
1868 | 1943 |
Edo-fu (ex-shogunate town), in 1871 converted by parts of Shinagawa-ken , Urawa-ken , Kosuge-ken (ex- shogunate domain) with the absorption of the Tōkyō-shi into the Tōkyō-to , see Tōkyō-tosei |
| Aikawa | -ken | 相 川 県 | Aikawa-Hiromachi, Sawata , Sado ( Sado , Niigata ) |
1868 | 1876 | Sado-Bugyo (Shōgunatsverwalter for Sado) to Niigata-ken incorporated |
| Asuwa | -ken | 足 羽 県 | Fukui- 佐 佳 枝上 町, Asuwa , Echizen ( Fukui , Fukui ) |
1872 | 1873 |
Hanbo-ken (ex- shogunate domain), the -han → -ken Fukui , Maruoka , Katsuyama , Ōno incorporated after Tsuruga-ken |
| Kashiwazaki | -ken | 柏 崎 県 | Kashiwazaki, Kariwa , Echigo ( Kashiwazaki , Niigata ) |
1868 | 1873 | Parts of the Suibara-ken (ex-shogunate domain) or Suibara-daikan / Niigata-bugyō (shogunate administrator in Echigo), Nagaoka-han , the -han → -ken Takada , Yoita , Itoigawa , Shiiya , exclaves of Kuwana-han and Aizu -han 1869 temporarily to Echigo-fu , 1873 final after Niigata-ken incorporated |
| Kanazawa | -ken | 金 沢 県 | Kanazawa- ?, Ishikawa , Kaga ( Kanazawa , Ishikawa ) |
1871 | 1872 |
Kanazawa-han , Daishoji-han → -ken , 1871/72 temporarily Nanao-ken , Niikawa-ken split off in 1872 with Nanao-ken reunited, administrative headquarters to Mikawa-machi (now Hakusan-shi) laid and in Ishikawa-ken renamed |
| Chikuma | -ken | 筑 摩 県 | Matsumoto, Chikuma , Shinano ( Matsumoto , Nagano ) |
1871 | 1876 | the -han → -ken Suwa , Takatō , Iida , Matsumoto , and Ina-ken (ex-shogunate domain in Shinano), Takayama-ken (ex-shogunate domain in Hida) shared
between Nagano-ken and Gifu-ken |
| Tsuruga | -ken | 敦 賀 県 | Tsuruga, Tsuruga , Echizen ( Tsuruga , Fukui ) |
1871 | 1876 |
Obama-han , Sabae-han shared
between Ishikawa-ken and Shiga-ken |
| Nagoya | -ken | 名古屋 県 | Nagoya- ?, Aichi , Owari ( Nagoya , Aichi ) |
1871 | 1872 |
Nagoya-han → ken , Inuyama-han → -ken in Aichi-ken renamed |
| Nanao | -ken | 七 尾 県 | Tokoroguchi, Kashima , Noto ( Nanao , Ishikawa ) |
1871 | 1872 | split off from Kanazawa -ken shared between Ishikawa-ken and Niikawa-ken |
| Niikawa | -ken | 新 川 県 | Uozu, Niikawa , Etchū ( Uozu , Toyama ) |
1871 | 1876 |
Toyama-ken → han , parts of Kanazawa-ken / Nanao-ken by Ishikawa-ken incorporated |
| Nukata | -ken | 額 田 県 | Okazaki-Kōsei, Nukata , Mikawa ( Okazaki , Aichi ) |
1871 | 1872 | the -han → -ken Tahara , Toyohashi , Hanbara , Nishiōhira , Okazaki , Koromo , Nishio , Nishibata , Kariya , Shigehara , parts of Nagoya-ken, Ina-ken (Ex-Shōgunatsdomäne in Mikawa) by Aichi-ken incorporated |
| Hamamatsu | -ken | 浜 松 県 | Hamamatsu, Fuchi , Tōtōmi ( Hamamatsu , Shizuoka ) |
1871 | 1876 |
Horie-han → -ken , parts of Shizuoka-han → -ken according Shizuoka-ken incorporated |
| Watarai | -fu, 1869 -ken |
度 会 府 度 会 県 |
Yamada-Ichinoki, Watarai , Ise ( Ise , Mie ) |
1868 | 1876 | Yamada-Bugyo (Shōgunatsverwalter for Ise shrine and Shōgunatsdomäne in Ise) which -han → -ken Hisai , Toba by Mie-ken incorporated |
| Anotsu | -ken | 安 濃 津 県 | Tsu-Daimon, Anō , Ise ( Tsu , Mie ) |
1872 | 1872 | renamed
the -han → -ken Kuwana , Kameyama , Nagashima , Kanbe , Komono , Tsu to Mie-ken |
| Ōtsu | -ken | 大 津 県 | Ōtsu, Shiga , Ōmi ( Ōtsu , Shiga ) |
1868 | 1872 | Ōtsu-Bugyo (Shōgunatsverwalter in Ōmi) Omizo-han , the -han → -ken Nishōji , Minakuchi , Zeze in Shiga-ken renamed |
| Sakai | -ken | 堺 県 | Sakai- ?, Ōtori , Izumi ( Sakai , Osaka ) |
1868 | 1881 | Shōgunatsstadt Sakai, Kawachi-ken (Ex-Shōgunatsdomäne), Sayama-han , the -han → -ken stannane , Hakata , Kishiwada , Yoshimi by Osaka-fu incorporated |
| Nara | -ken | 奈良 県 | Nara- ?, Soekami , Yamato ( Nara , Nara ) |
1868 | 1876 | Shogunate city of Nara, the -han → -ken Yagyū , Kōriyama , Koizumi , Yanagimoto , Shibamura , Tawaramoto , Takatori , Kujira , Gojō-ken (ex-Shōgunate domain) incorporated into Sakai-ken (again separated from Ōsaka-fu in 1887) |
| Shikama | -ken | 飾 磨 県 | Himeji, Shikama , Harima ( Himeji , Hyōgo ) |
1871 | 1876 | the -han → -ken Himeji , Akashi , Tatsuno , Ako , Mikadzuki , Ono , Mikusa , Hayashida , Anji , Yamazaki by Hyogo-ken incorporated |
| Toyooka | -ken | 豊 岡 県 | Toyooka, Kinosaki , Tajima ( Toyooka , Hyōgo ) |
1871 | 1876 |
Toyooka-han , Ikuno-ken , Kumihama-ken (ex- shogunate domain), the -han → -ken Izushi , Muraoka , Miyazu , Maizuru , Mineyama , Sasayama , Fukuchiyama , Kaibara shared
between Kyōto-fu and Hyōgo-ken |
| Nagahama | -ken | 長 浜 県 | Nagahama, Sakata , Ōmi ( Nagahama , Shiga ) |
1871 | 1872 | renamed the -han → -ken Hikone , Miyagawa , Yamakami , Yamagata to Inukami-ken |
| Inukami | -ken | 犬 上 県 | Hikone, Inukami , Ōmi ( Hikone , Shiga ) |
1872 | 1872 | Renaming from Nagahama-ken to Shiga-ken incorporated |
| Hamada | -ken | 浜 田 県 | Asai, Naka , Iwami ( Hamada , Shimane ) |
1871 | 1876 |
Hamada-han (since 1866 to Chōshū ) / Ōmori-ken (ex-Shōgunatsdomäne), Tsuwano-han of Shimane-ken incorporated |
| Fukatsu | -ken | 深 津 県 | Fukuyama, Fukatsu , Bingo ( Fukuyama , Hiroshima ) |
1871 | 1872 | renamed the -han → -ken Fukuyama , Kamogata , Ikusaka , Niwase , Ashimori , Asao , Okada , Takahashi , Nariwa , Niimi and Kurashiki-ken (ex-Shogunate domain) to Oda-ken |
| Oda | -ken | 小田 県 | Kasaoka, Oda , Bitchū ( Kasaoka , Okayama ) |
1872 | 1875 | Renaming of Fukatsu to Okayama-ken incorporated (parts to Hiroshima-ken in 1876 ) |
| Hokujō | -ken | 北 条 県 | Sange, Sai-Hokujō , Mimasaka ( Tsuyama , Okayama ) |
1871 | 1876 | the -han → -ken Tsuyama , Katsuyama → Mashima , Tazuta (former Exklave of Hamada-han , 1866 to Chōshū fell) according to Okayama-ken incorporated |
| Uwajima | -ken | 宇 和 島 県 | Uwajima, Uwa , Iyo ( Uwajima , Ehime ) |
1871 | 1872 | the -han → -ken Uwajima , Yoshida (branch of Uwajima), Ōzu , Niiya (branch of Ōzu) renamed Kamiyama / Jinzan-ken |
| Kamiyama / Jinzan | -ken | 神山 県 | Uwajima, Uwa , Iyo ( Uwajima , Ehime ) |
1872 | 1873 | Renaming of Uwajima-ken with Ishizuchi / Sekitetsu-ken to Ehime united |
| Matsuyama | -ken | 松山 県 | Matsuyama, Onsen , Iyo ( Matsuyama , Ehime ) |
1871 | 1872 | renamed the -han → -ken Saijō , Komatsu , Imabari , Matsuyama in Ishizuchi / Sekitetsu-ken |
| Ishizuchi / Sekitetsu | -ken | 石 鉄 県 | Matsuyama, Onsen , Iyo ( Matsuyama , Ehime ) |
1872 | 1873 | Renaming of Matsuyama-ken with Kamiyama / Jinzan-ken to Ehime united |
| Myōdō | -ken | 名 東 県 | Tokushima, Myōdō , Awa ( Tokushima , Tokushima ) |
1871 | 1876 |
Tokushima-han → -ken , Kagawa -ken shared
between Kagawa-ken , Kōchi-ken and Hyōgo-ken |
| Kagawa | -ken | 香 川 県 | Takamatsu, Kagawa , Sanuki ( Takamatsu , Kagawa ) |
1871 | 1873 |
Takamatsu-han → -ken , Marugame-han → -ken , parts of Kurashiki -ken incorporated into Myōdō-ken |
| Kagawa | -ken | 香 川 県 | Takamatsu, Kagawa , Sanuki ( Takamatsu , Kagawa ) |
1875 | 1876 | of Myodo-ken cleaved by Ehime-ken incorporated (1888 again separated) |
| Kokura | -ken | 小 倉 県 | Kokura-Muromachi, Kiku , Buzen ( Kitakyūshū , Fukuoka ) |
1871 | 1876 | the -han → -ken Toyotsu (formerly Kokura → Kawara-han ), Chizuka (branch of Kokura), Nakatsu incorporated into Fukuoka-ken , parts later to Ōita-ken |
| Imari | -ken | 伊万 里 県 | Imari, Matsura , Hizen ( Imari , Saga ) |
1871 | 1872 | renamed
the -han → -ken Saga , Hasunoike , Ogi , Kashima , Karatsu , Izuhara to Saga-ken |
| saga | -ken | 佐賀 県 | Saga, Saga , Hizen ( Saga , Saga ) |
1872 | 1876 | Renaming of Imari-ken incorporated into Mizuma-ken (again separated from Nagasaki-ken in 1883) |
| Mizuma | -ken | 三 潴 県 | Enokizu, Mizuma , Chikugo ( Ōkawa , Fukuoka ) |
1871 | 1876 | the -han → -ken Kurume , Miike , Yanagawa , 1876 at Saga-ken extended between ken Fukuoka and Nagasaki-ken divided |
| Shirakawa | -ken | 白 川 県 | Kumamoto, Akita , Higo ( Kumamoto , Kumamoto ) |
1872 | 1876 |
Kumamoto-han → -ken , renamed Kumamoto-ken in 1873 to include Yatsushiro-ken |
| Yatsushiro | -ken | 八 代 県 | Yatsushiro, Yatsushiro , Higo ( Yatsushiro , Kumamoto ) |
1871 | 1873 |
Hitoyoshi-han → -ken , Amakusa-ken (ex-Shogunate domain), parts of Kumamoto-han → -ken incorporated into Shirakawa-ken |
| Mimitsu | -ken | 美 々 津 県 | Mimitsu, Koyu , Hyūga ( Hyūga , Miyazaki ) |
1871 | 1873 | the -han → -ken Nobeoka , Takanabe , Sadowara and Tomitaka-ken (ex-Shōgunatsdomäne) with parts of Miyakonojo-ken to Miyazaki-ken combined |
| Miyakonojō | -ken | 都城 県 | Miyakonojō, Morokata , Hyūga ( Miyakonojō , Miyazaki ) |
1871 | 1873 |
Obi-han → -ken , parts of Kagoshima-han → -ken shared
between Miyazaki-ken and Kagoshima-ken |
| Miyazaki | -ken | 宮 崎 県 | Miyazaki, Miyazaki , Hyūga ( Miyazaki , Miyazaki ) |
1873 | 1876 | Mimitsu-ken, Miyakonojo-ken by Kagoshima-ken incorporated |
Colonies
For the colonies , different administrative regulations applied than in the mother country, but in some cases there were territorial administrative units comparable to the prefectures, although mostly -dō ( 道 ), -shū ( 州 ) or -chō ( 庁 ) and not -fu or - ken , but in European languages it is sometimes also translated as “prefecture”. Some examples from the English language Wikipedia ( en: Prefectures of Japan # Territories lost after World War II ):
- Karafuto Prefecture ( 樺 太 庁 , Karafuto-chō ) from 1907, declared part of the motherland in 1943 (see above), today part of the Sakhalin Oblast of the Russian Federation
- Nan'yō-chō ( 南洋 庁 , "South Sea Office / Authority / Administration") from 1922, s. Japanese mandate in the South Seas , then Pacific Islands Trust Territory of the United States of America
- Taihoku-shū ( 臺北 州 , Chinese reading Táiběi Zhōu ) from 1920, today three cities ( shì ) and one district ( xiàn ) of the Republic of China
- Keiki- do (Japanese reading of 京畿 道 , Kor. Gyeonggi-do ), today Gyeonggi-do and the cities of Seoul and Incheon in the Republic of Korea, which were later separated
See also
Web links
- National Governors 'Association Website ( Zenkoku Chijikai , National Governors' Conference )
- National Association of Chairpersons of Prefectural Assemblies Website (English for zenkoku todōfuken gikai gichōkai , national conference of the prefectural parliament)
- Ishida Satoshi, 地理 デ ー タ 集 : Map of the prefectures after the first consolidation 1871/72 (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 島 の 数
- ^ A b Population, Population Change, Area and Population Density - Japan *, All Shi *, All Gun *, Prefectures *, All Shi *, All Gun *, Shi *, Machi *, Mura *, and Municipalities in 2000. In : 2010 Population Census. Japan Statistics Office, October 26, 2011, accessed November 28, 2013 (Japanese).
- ↑ Japan: Prefectures and Major Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Charts. Retrieved November 25, 2017 .
- ↑ a b 市区 町 村 数 . In: e-Stat. Sōmushō tōkei-kyoku (MIC Statistics Office), June 21, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ ISO 3166-2: JP
- ↑ Naikaku-fu , keizai shakai sōgō kenkyūjo ( 経 済 社会 総 合 研究所 , “General Research Institute for Economy and Society”), kenmin keizai kessan ( 県 民 経 済 計算 , “Prefecture National Accounts”) , May 26, 2017: 済 済 26 年度 年度 年度計算 に つ い て , p. 2, tab. 1, accessed on July 31, 2018.
- ↑ Example: prefecture administration of Tokyo, time table for the history of Tokyo (pdf, Japanese; from 東京 都 プ ロ フ ィ ー ル （都 政 2018） (Tōkyōto profile (tosei 2018)) ) provides lunisolar dates before 1873 without date conversion into the Gregorian calendar with [in individual cases therefore wrong] European years. A shortened version of the time table on the English website of the prefecture administration (TMG: History of Tokyo ) already contains only the adopted Gregorian year numbers without a date, and in some cases still incorrect.