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Fukuchi, Fukuoka
is a town in Tagawa District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was established on March 6, 2006, by the merger of the former towns of Akaike, HÅjÅ and Kanada, all from Tagawa District. Mount Fukuchi () stands at the northern tip of the town. The town has an area of and an estimated population of 23,389 as of May 1, 2017. The population density is 607.5 people per km². The town is famous for Agano ware Agano may refer to: * Agano, Niigata, a city in Niigata prefecture, Japan * Agano River, a river in the Horuriku region of Japan * Agano, Saitama, a village, now part of the city of HannÅ ** Agano Station, a railway station HannÅ, Saitama * ... (上野焼 Agano-yaki), a type of pottery. References External links *Town of Fukuchi Towns in Fukuoka Prefecture {{Fukuoka-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of KyÅ«shÅ«. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders Saga Prefecture to the southwest, Kumamoto Prefecture to the south, and ÅŒita Prefecture to the southeast. Fukuoka is the capital and largest city of Fukuoka Prefecture, and the largest city on KyÅ«shÅ«, with other major cities including Kitakyushu, Kurume, and ÅŒmuta. Fukuoka Prefecture is located at the northernmost point of KyÅ«shÅ« on the Kanmon Straits, connecting the Tsushima Strait and Seto Inland Sea across from Yamaguchi Prefecture on the island of Honshu, and extends south towards the Ariake Sea. History Fukuoka Prefecture includes the former provinces of Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen. Shrines and temples KÅra taisha, Sumiyoshi-jinja, and Hakozaki-gÅ« are the chief Shinto shrines (''ichinomiya'') in the prefecture. Geography Fukuoka Prefecture faces the sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Regions Of Japan
Japan is divided into eight regions. They are not official administrative units, though they have been used by government officials for statistical and other purposes since 1905. They are widely used in, for example, maps, geography textbooks, and weather reports, and many businesses and institutions use their home regions in their names, for example Kinki Nippon Railway, ChÅ«goku Bank, and TÅhoku University. Each region contains one or more of the country's 47 prefectures. Of the four main islands of Japan, HokkaidÅ, Shikoku, and KyÅ«shÅ« make up one region each, the latter also containing the Satsunan Islands, while the largest island HonshÅ« is divided into five regions. Okinawa Prefecture is usually included in KyÅ«shÅ«, but is sometimes treated as its own ninth region. Japan has eight High Courts, but their jurisdictions do not correspond to the eight regions (see Judicial system of Japan for details). Table Regions and islands This is a list of Japan's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands. Kyushu has a land area of and a population of 14,311,224 in 2018. In the 8th-century TaihÅ Code reforms, Dazaifu was established as a special administrative term for the region. Geography The island is mountainous, and Japan's most active volcano, Mount Aso at , is on Kyushu. There are many other signs of tectonic activity, including numerous areas of hot springs. The most famous of these are in Beppu, on the east shore, and around Mt. Aso in central Kyushu. The island is separated from Honshu by the Kanmon Straits. Being the nearest island to the Asian continent, historically it is the gateway to Japan. The total area is which makes it the 37th largest island in the world. It's slightly larger than Taiwan is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prefectures Of Japan
Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (, ''todÅfuken'', ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper (, '' ken''), two urban prefectures (, '' fu'': Osaka and Kyoto), one "circuit" or "territory" (, ''dÅ'': Hokkai-dÅ) and one metropolis (, '' to'': Tokyo). In 1868, the Meiji ''Fuhanken sanchisei'' administration created the first prefectures (urban ''fu'' and rural ''ken'') to replace the urban and rural administrators ('' bugyÅ'', '' daikan'', etc.) in the parts of the country previously controlled directly by the shogunate and a few territories of rebels/shogunate loyalists who had not submitted to the new government such as Aizu/ Wakamatsu. In 1871, all remaining feudal domains ''( han)'' were also transformed into prefectures, so that prefectures subdivided the whole country. In several waves of territorial consolidation, today's 47 prefectur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Japan
In Japan, a is composed of one or more rural municipalities ( towns or villages) within a prefecture. Districts have no governing function, and are only used for geographic or statistical purposes such as mailing addresses. Cities are not part of districts. Historically, districts have at times functioned as an administrative unit. From 1878 to 1921The governing law, the district code (''gunsei'', 郡制Entry for the 1890 originalanentry for the revised 1899 ''gunsei''in the National Diet Library ''Nihon hÅrei sakuin''/"Index of Japanese laws and ordinances"), was abolished in 1921, but the district assemblies (''gunkai'', 郡会) existed until 1923, the district chiefs (''gunchÅ'', 郡長) and district offices (''gun-yakusho'', 郡役所) until 1926. district governments were roughly equivalent to a county of the United States, ranking below prefecture and above town or village, on the same level as a city. District governments were entirely abolished by 1926. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagawa District, Fukuoka
is a district located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 90,560 and a density of 292.98 persons per km2. The total area is 309.13 km2. Towns and villages *Aka * Fukuchi *Itoda * Kawara *Kawasaki Kawasaki ( ja, å·å´Ž, Kawasaki, river peninsula, links=no) may refer to: Places *Kawasaki, Kanagawa, a Japanese city **Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, a ward in Kawasaki, Kanagawa **Kawasaki City Todoroki Arena **Kawasaki Stadium, a multi-sport stadium *K ... * ÅŒtÅ * Soeda Merger history On March 6, 2006, the following towns merged to form the new town of Fukuchi: * Akaike * Kanada * HÅjÅ Districts in Fukuoka Prefecture {{Fukuoka-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Standard Time
, or , is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+09:00). Japan does not observe daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated on several occasions. During World War II, the time zone was often referred to as Tokyo Standard Time. Japan Standard Time is equivalent to Korean Standard Time, Pyongyang Time (North Korea), Eastern Indonesia Standard Time, East-Timorese Standard Time and Yakutsk Time (Russia). History Before the Meiji era (1868–1912), each local region had its own time zone in which noon was when the sun was exactly at its culmination. As modern transportation methods, such as trains, were adopted, this practice became a source of confusion. For example, there is a difference of about 5 degrees longitude between Tokyo and Osaka and because of this, a train that departed from Tokyo would arrive at Osaka 20 minutes behind the time in Tokyo. In 1886, Ordinance 51 was issued in response to this problem, which stated: Acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Towns In Japan
A town (町; ''chÅ'' or ''machi'') is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (''ken'' or other equivalents), city (''shi''), and village (''mura''). Geographically, a town is contained within a district. Note that the same word (町; ''machi'' or ''chÅ'') is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a legacy of when smaller towns were formed on the outskirts of a city, only to eventually merge into it. Towns See also * Municipalities of Japan * Japanese addressing system The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. When written in Latin alphabet, Lati ... References {{reflist External links DF 7 of 40">"Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows towns compared with other Japanese city types at p. 1 [PDF 7 of 40/now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akaike, Fukuoka
was a town located in Tagawa District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was once a coal mining town. As of 2005, the town had an estimated population of 9,592 and a density of 592.09 persons per km². The total area was 16.20 km². This is down from 9,870 (609.26/km²) in 2003. On March 6, 2006, Akaike was merged with the towns of HÅjÅ and Kanada (all from Tagawa District is a district located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 90,560 and a density of 292.98 persons per km2. The total area is 309.13 km2. Towns and villages *Aka * Fukuchi *Itoda *Kawara ...) to create the town of Fukuchi, with an estimated population of 25,000 (September 1, 2011). In 1992, it was the first municipality in Japan to become effectively bankrupt, with losses of 3.2 billion yen, or 1.3 times its annual budget. The town's rehabilitation process was completed at the end of fiscal 2001—two years earlier than initially planned. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HÅjÅ, Fukuoka
was a town located in Tagawa District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 7,831 and a density of 426.06 persons per km². The total area was 18.38 km². On March 6, 2006, HÅjÅ was merged with the towns of Akaike and Kanada (all from Tagawa District is a district located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 90,560 and a density of 292.98 persons per km2. The total area is 309.13 km2. Towns and villages *Aka * Fukuchi *Itoda *Kawara ...) to create the town of Fukuchi. External links Fukuchi official website Dissolved municipalities of Fukuoka Prefecture Populated places disestablished in 2006 2006 disestablishments in Japan {{Fukuoka-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanada, Fukuoka
was a town located in Tagawa District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 8,285 and a density of 1,110.59 persons per km². The total area was 7.46 km². On March 6, 2006, Kanada was merged with the towns of Akaike and HÅjÅ (all from Tagawa District is a district located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 90,560 and a density of 292.98 persons per km2. The total area is 309.13 km2. Towns and villages *Aka * Fukuchi *Itoda *Kawara ...) to create the town of Fukuchi. External links Fukuchi official website Dissolved municipalities of Fukuoka Prefecture Populated places disestablished in 2006 2006 disestablishments in Japan {{Fukuoka-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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