OKINAWA, Japan's most southerly and poorest prefecture, is home to three-quarters of the country's American bases.
It was moored at Hachinohe in the Aomori prefecture when the tsunami hit last year.
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It is possible the rice production in the prefecture will be permanently wiped out.
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In addition, Prime Minister Noda ordered two reactors in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, to be restarted.
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In April 2010, 90, 000 protesters marched on Futenma demanding its total removal from the prefecture.
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In six years, says Mr Kitagawa, 800 of the prefecture's 3, 300 budget items have disappeared.
The prefecture of Gunma, north of Tokyo, had no history of frequent or severe earthquakes.
Most of the deaths - 5, 700 - have been reported in the prefecture of Miyagi.
Burglars also struck three stores across Japan's western metropolis of Osaka prefecture, taking roughly 200 iPhones.
's Minokamo Site (located in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture) will be absorbed by EMCS Corp.
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Packages containing gold bars started turning up in Ishinomaki, in Miyagi prefecture, about 10 days ago.
The building of a reprocessing plant at Rokkashomura, in Aomori prefecture, has been disappointingly slow.
At Tokiwaya, a countryside ryokan in Shizuoka prefecture, lucky bathers can see dramatic sunsets over Toda Bay.
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Nozawa Onsen, in Nagano prefecture, is one of the oldest and most popular hot springs in Japan.
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The confusion was heightened by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake that hit nearby Chiba Prefecture at 1:42 p.m.
One shook the Ibaraki Prefecture mid-morning Monday registering a 5.0 on the Richter scale, Kyodo news reported.
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"Thick ones make your legs look lots slimmer, " says Rie Takahashi, a student in rural Mie prefecture.
In August 1996, a referendum was held in Maki, in Niigata prefecture, about a nuclear power plant.
The airline also cancelled another offer between Shanghai and Kagawa prefecture that it had launched days ago.
The report described how government restrictions and mandated safety procedures may permanently cripple rice production in Fukushima prefecture.
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On the other hand, the bases' presence brings lashings of central government money to the country's poorest prefecture.
Founder of publicly traded Sugi Pharmacy with more than 600 drugstores centered on Aichi Prefecture in central Japan.
The increase was even more marked in the race for the governorship of Shizuoka prefecture in early July.
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In Miyagi prefecture, Governor Shiro Asano has backed citizens' demands for disclosure of excessive entertainment spending by local officials.
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"It is a system of irresponsibility, " says Masayasu Kitagawa, Governor of Mie prefecture.
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Three thousand bodies have been found in Iwate prefecture, and 776 in Fukushima.
But according to the latest reports, in the Miyagi Prefecture town of Minami-Sanriku alone, some 10, 000 people are missing.
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This model was fundamentally de-empowering of the prefecture and lower level government units.
Kashgar prefecture is one of the poorest parts of Xinjiang, which itself is among the poorest of China's provinces.
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