Further analysis shows that Taiwanese are the most frequent foreign travelers in 20 rural
prefectures. In fact, they account for as much as 60 percent in some of them, such as Iwate in northeastern Japan.
As of 6.30am on Tuesday, four people had died in Osaka
Prefecture and 376 were injured in Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto, Nara, Shiga and Mie
prefectures, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
Japan is divided for administrative purposes into 47
prefectures stretching from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south.
Early in the response, all alerts were reported directly to local
Prefectures * and were investigated by a
prefecture health department surveillance team to determine whether the patient met the suspected Ebola case definition, or whether the reported death occurred in a person who was at high risk for Ebola (4).
According to the town office, 3,782 town residents are evacuating in Fukushima
Prefecture and 3,132 others in other
prefectures.
The Gunma prefectural government reported the shipment of 321.5 kg of the meat, processed at a slaughterhouse in Yokohama, to retailers in Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Saitama
prefectures through a local wholesaler.
But the police say they believe the attackers in the latest robbery are different from those in previous cases in Osaka and Hyogo
prefectures as the crimes were conducted in different ways, they said.
The roaming areas serviced by NTT DoCoMo are expected to be in 31
prefectures (please refer to the list below), excluding Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka areas.
We analyzed surveillance data from 1992 to 1999 for 46
prefectures, excluding Okinawa
Prefecture, which is approximately 800 km from the four major islands of Japan.
Land prices in Ibaraki are considerably lower than those in Tokyo and the surrounding
prefectures of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa, which make up the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
Hiroshima ranked lowest among the 47
prefectures, scoring only six points in the poll, conducted for the fifth time.
A redistricting based on the legislation, which calls for assigning one lower house seat for each of the 47
prefectures and proportionally distributing the remaining 253 seats among them, will give five
prefectures one more seat each and five one less.
TOKYO, March 9 Kyodo An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 on the open-ended Richter scale jolted Kumamoto
Prefecture and nearby
prefectures in southwestern Japan on Tuesday, the Meteorological Agency said.
The government has sent to Japan's 47
prefectures 7.2 million cards to show people's intent to donate their organs, but none of the
prefectures knows how many cards were actually distributed to residents, a Kyodo News survey said Monday.
