Prefectures in a sentence

Most of Patassé's support came from Gbaya, Kare, and Kaba voters in seven heavily populated prefectures in the northwest while Goumba's support came largely from ten less-populated prefectures in the south and east.

But the figure in the southern island prefecture of Okinawa was remarkably high at 28.74 per facility, with Omi noting its relatively weak system for providing medical care and low vaccination rates compared with other prefectures.

In Japan, authorities issued heatstroke alerts to tens of millions of people in 20 of its 47 prefectures as near-record high temperatures scorched large areas and torrential rain pummelled other regions.

Several other Japanese prefectures were in the path of the giant wave, including Aichi, Mie, Wakayama, Tokushima, Kochi, and Miyazaki, with authorities warning the public to stay clear of the coast until alerts are lifted.

Authorities warned the storm could be one of the strongest ever to hit the region, and local governments have issued evacuation orders for millions of residents in several prefectures.

But much more is planned for not only Hokkaido but also in Akita, Iwate, Chiba and Nagasaki prefectures, and other coastal areas where the meteorological conditions are judged to be best for effective wind power.

Cacdac said there are almost 1,200 OFWs in the Japan’s Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures near the epicenter of the earthquake.

It also said the typhoon would bring strong winds, high waves and significant rainfall to most of the country, particularly the southern prefectures of Kyushu, and issued its highest-level warnings.

The Metropolitan Police Department has also searched a total of 11 locations in Tokyo and four other prefectures, including a building that housed a fraud group to which the suspects, including Kazuki Suzuki, 48, belonged.

The prefectures with net migration were Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Osaka, Shiga, and Fukuoka.

Abe declared a monthlong state of emergency on April 7 in Tokyo and six other urban prefectures and later expanded it nationwide.

According to a survey by the association on pandemic-related grants, the 47 prefectures need a total of ¥1.8438 trillion, including the amounts already spent, for financing small business support and other relief measures.

According to the MPD, more than 10 similar cases have been confirmed in Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures, including Kanagawa and Chiba, since late August.

A government panel on virus prevention said Wednesday it is too early to say if the resurgence since the end of a state of emergency in late May is over, citing a continued spike seen in some areas such as Osaka and Fukuoka prefectures.

All prefectures had seen shortfalls, the survey showed.

An association of governors in prefectures hosting U.S. bases has urged the government to prod the U.S. military to actively announce information on the situation with infections at its bases and measures it is taking.

Clusters are emerging in places and at a pace never before seen in Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi, Kanagawa, Hyogo and Ibaraki prefectures, among others.

Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said the government could lift the emergency this week in regions that have seen a notable improvement, even among the 13 hardest-hit prefectures, while warning that any reversal of the trend could change that.

Elsewhere, Saitama and Okayama prefectures posted record daily cases, at 226 and 60, respectively.

He said that Yoshimura “seems to be misunderstanding, as it is at prefectural governments’ discretion whether to lift such requests” within their prefectures under the state of emergency.