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of Japan">Administrative divisions<br />of Japan</a></th></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddf;"> Prefectural</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist" style="padding:0.15em 0 0.6em;"> <a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan" title="Prefectures of Japan">Prefectures</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddf;"> Sub-prefectural</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist" style="padding:0.15em 0 0.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Subprefectures_of_Japan" title="Subprefectures of Japan">Subprefectures</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddf;"> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Municipal</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist" style="padding:0.15em 0 0.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cities_designated_by_government_ordinance_of_Japan" title="Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan">Designated cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Core_cities_of_Japan" title="Core cities of Japan">Core cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_cities_of_Japan" title="Special cities of Japan">Special cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cities_of_Japan" title="Cities of Japan">Cities</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan" title="List of cities in Japan">List</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_wards_of_Tokyo" title="Special wards of Tokyo">Special wards (Tokyo)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Japan" title="List of towns in Japan">Towns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_villages_in_Japan" title="List of villages in Japan">Villages</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddf;"> Sub-municipal</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist" style="padding:0.15em 0 0.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wards_of_Japan" title="Wards of Japan">Wards</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style 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governments: <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Japan" title="Government of Japan">national</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan" title="Prefectures of Japan">prefectural</a>, and <b>municipal</b>. The nation is divided into 47 prefectures. Each prefecture consists of numerous municipalities, with 1,719 in total as of January 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are four types of municipalities in Japan: <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_Japan" title="Cities of Japan">cities</a>, <a href="/wiki/Towns_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Towns of Japan">towns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Villages_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Villages of Japan">villages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Special_wards_of_Tokyo" title="Special wards of Tokyo">special wards of Tokyo</a> (<span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ku</i></span>). In <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>, this system is known as <i>shikuchōson</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">市区町村</span></span>)</span>, where each <a href="/wiki/Kanji" title="Kanji">kanji</a> in the word represents one of the four types of municipalities. Some <a href="/wiki/City_designated_by_government_ordinance" class="mw-redirect" title="City designated by government ordinance">designated cities</a> also have further administrative subdivisions, also known as wards. But, unlike the special wards of Tokyo, these wards are not municipalities. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Status">Status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Municipalities_of_Japan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The status of a municipality, if it is a village, town or city, is decided by the prefectural government. Generally, a village or town can be promoted to a city when its population increases above fifty thousand, and a city can (but need not) be demoted to a town or village when its population decreases below fifty thousand. The least-populated city, <a href="/wiki/Utashinai,_Hokkaid%C5%8D" class="mw-redirect" title="Utashinai, Hokkaidō">Utashinai, Hokkaidō</a>, has a population of merely four thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, <a href="/wiki/Otofuke,_Hokkaid%C5%8D" class="mw-redirect" title="Otofuke, Hokkaidō">Otofuke, Hokkaidō</a>, has nearly forty thousand residents, and the country's largest village <a href="/wiki/Yomitan,_Okinawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Yomitan, Okinawa">Yomitan, Okinawa</a> has a population of 40,517. </p><p>The capital city, Tokyo, no longer has city status. Tokyo Prefecture now encompasses 23 special wards, each a city unto itself, as well as many other cities, towns and even villages on the Japanese mainland and outlying islands. Each of the <a href="/wiki/23_special_wards" class="mw-redirect" title="23 special wards">23 special wards</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> is legally equivalent to a city, though sometimes the 23 special wards as a whole are regarded as one city. For information on the former city of Tokyo, see <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_City" title="Tokyo City">Tokyo City</a>; for information about present-day Tokyo Prefecture, see <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Municipalities_of_Japan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>See <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan" title="List of cities in Japan">List of cities in Japan</a> for a complete list of cities. <i>See also</i>: <a href="/wiki/Core_cities_of_Japan" title="Core cities of Japan">Core cities of Japan</a> </p><p>The following are examples of the 20 <a href="/wiki/City_designated_by_government_ordinance" class="mw-redirect" title="City designated by government ordinance">designated cities</a>: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fukuoka,_Fukuoka" class="mw-redirect" title="Fukuoka, Fukuoka">Fukuoka</a>, the most populous city in the <a href="/wiki/Ky%C5%ABsh%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyūshū">Kyūshū</a> region</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshima" title="Hiroshima">Hiroshima</a>, the busy manufacturing city in the <a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%ABgoku_region" title="Chūgoku region">Chūgoku region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Honsh%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Honshū">Honshū</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kobe" title="Kobe">Kobe</a>, a major port on the <a href="/wiki/Seto_Inland_Sea" title="Seto Inland Sea">Inland Sea</a>, located in the center of Honshū near Osaka</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitaky%C5%ABsh%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Kitakyūshū">Kitakyūshū</a>, a city of just under one million inhabitants in Kyūshū</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>, former capital, historic center and thriving modern city</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagoya,_Aichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nagoya, Aichi">Nagoya</a>, center of a major automobile-manufacturing region on the eastern seaboard of Honshū</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osaka" title="Osaka">Osaka</a>, a vast manufacturing city on the Inland Sea coast of Honshū</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sapporo,_Hokkaid%C5%8D" class="mw-redirect" title="Sapporo, Hokkaidō">Sapporo</a>, the largest city in Hokkaidō</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sendai,_Miyagi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sendai, Miyagi">Sendai</a>, the principal center of northeast Honshū (also known as the <a href="/wiki/T%C5%8Dhoku_region" title="Tōhoku region">Tōhoku region</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yokohama" title="Yokohama">Yokohama</a>, a port city just south of Tokyo</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non-municipality">Non-municipality</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Municipalities_of_Japan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Non-municipality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The same kanji which designates a town (町) is also sometimes used for addresses of sections of an urban area. In rare cases, a municipal village might even contain a section with the same type of designation. Although the kanji is the same, neither of these individual sections are municipalities unto themselves. Sometimes, the section name is a remnant from <a href="/wiki/Gappei" class="mw-redirect" title="Gappei">gappei</a>, a system where several adjacent communities merge to form a larger municipality, where the old town names are kept for a section of the new city, even though the resulting new city may have a completely different name. </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Subprefectures_of_Japan" title="Subprefectures of Japan">Subprefectures</a></b> are branch offices of the prefectures and not municipalities by themselves.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Japan" title="Districts of Japan">Districts</a></b> are not current municipalities but names of groups of towns and villages.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Japan" title="Provinces of Japan">Provinces</a></b> are not current municipalities but (almost obsolete) names of geographical regions similar to prefectures.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Municipalities_of_Japan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_division" title="Administrative division">Administrative division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">Urban area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_Autonomy_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Local Autonomy Law">Local Autonomy Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_wards_of_Tokyo" title="Special wards of Tokyo">23 special wards of Tokyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system" title="Japanese addressing system">Japanese addressing system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merger_and_dissolution_of_municipalities_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Merger and dissolution of municipalities of Japan">Merger and dissolution of municipalities of Japan</a></li> <li><a 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