Subprefectures in Hokkaid - S YA Subprefecture, Hidaka Subprefecture, Abashiri Subprefecture, Nemuro Subprefecture, Tokachi Subprefecture (Paperback)

Chapters: S ya Subprefecture, Hidaka Subprefecture, Abashiri Subprefecture, Nemuro Subprefecture, Tokachi Subprefecture, Kamikawa Subprefecture, Sorachi Subprefecture, Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Iburi Subprefecture, Oshima Subprefecture, Ishikari Subprefecture, Rumoi Subprefecture, Kushiro Subprefecture, Hiyama Subprefecture. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Districts Hokkaid Prefecture has 14 branch offices called (shich) in Japanese, which is often translated in English as subprefectures. Normally, a subprefecture consists of a few to a dozen cities, towns, and/or villages. For historical reasons, some older people in Hokkaid use the subprefecture name suffixed by -kannai in their address. Today, fourteen shich effectively cover all of Hokkaid. Technically, the shich cover only towns and villages, although some commissioned business is conducted for cities. Map of subprefectures of HokkaidNumbers are those of the map above. Japan claims the sourethern part of Kuril Islands (Northern Territories), currently administered by Russia, belong to Nemuro Subprefecture. However, the table above excludes these islands' data. The prefectural government of Hokkaid planned to reorganize the current 14 subprefectures into 9 development bureaus. Five subprefectures, namely Hidaka, Hiyama, Ishikari, Nemuro, and Rumoi were subject to be cut down. The capital municipalities of these subprefectures opposed the plan, but on June 28 2008, the prefectural council passed the ordinance of the reorganization. The change was going to take effect from April 2009. However, it is now impossible to make the reform on time. The amendment of the Public Offices Election Act was needed to accomplish the reform, but it is not yet done as of March 2009. It is not clear wheter the plan ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=31289