In Fukushima in northern Japan, the prefectural government asked 15, 000 local firms about progress.
The rest of the food's costs are subsidized by the national, prefectural and town governments.
In the past prefectural administrations have often siphoned off money destined for their subordinate counties.
Now it has the cache of a prefectural-level status after a ruling by the State Council.
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County chiefs remain at the mercy of their prefectural-level superiors, who retain a critical say in county appointments.
Building something new is the goal of the marine-products division of the Miyagi prefectural government, in the northeast.
She had been a professional social worker with a prefectural office, comfortably rewarded and a marketing man's delight.
In Mie Mr Kitagawa has introduced a system to evaluate the cost- effectiveness of major items in the prefectural budget.
Police are still trying to find out who sent a parcel of potassium cyanide to the Osaka prefectural government in 1992.
Okinawa's governor, Masahide Ota, has been badgered by developers who drool over Futenma's open spaces close to the crowded prefectural capital, Naha.
Even then, permission would have to be sought from the prefectural government.
In the coastal Miyagi prefecture town of Minamisanriku, 9, 500 people out of a population of 17, 000 are unaccounted for, according to prefectural authorities.
Only a fifth of the 2, 000-or-so hospitals designated as crucial by the prefectural authorities have debugged the software for computerised medical equipment and records.
Its representatives now occupy 57 of 109 seats (52%) in the Osaka prefectural government assembly and 33 of 86 seats (38%) in the Osaka municipal assembly.
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The prefectural governor, Yoshihiro Murai, takes a somewhat different tack.
Both intend to merge the city and prefectural governments, to create a regional block to draw investment and jobs away from Tokyo and help reshape government to cope with an ageing society.
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My guess is that it is the NRA approving the safety of the reactor and any restart plans, followed by the host municipality and the prefectural governor deciding that they want it restarted.
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Ota Fusae, 48, a former official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, defeated two major rivals in a gubernatorial election in Osaka Prefecture to become the country's first female prefectural governor, and one of the youngest, too.
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