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Cities of Japan
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Cities of Japan (without Hokkaido and Okinawa)
{{Administrative divisions of Japan}}A {{Nihongo|city|å¸|shi}} is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as {{nihongo|towns|çº|machi}} and {{nihongo|villages|æ|mura}}, with the difference that they are not a component of {{nihongo|districts|é¡|gun}}. Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947.Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, e-gov database of legal texts: ChihÅjichihÅ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205041444weblink |date=2005-02-05 }}Ministry of Justice, Japanese Law Translation Database System: Local Autonomy Act- Japan cities.png -
Cities of Japan (without Hokkaido and Okinawa)
City status
Article 8 of the Local Autonomy Law sets the following conditions for a municipality to be designated as a city:- Population must generally be 50,000 or greater (ååã¨ãã¦äººå£5ä¸äººä»¥ä¸)
- At least 60% of households must be established in a central urban area (ä¸å¿å¸è¡å°ã®æ¸æ°ãå ¨æ¸æ°ã®6å²ä»¥ä¸)
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Classifications for large cities
The Cabinet of Japan can designate cities of at least 200,000 inhabitants to have the status of core city, or designated city. These statuses expand the scope of administrative authority delegated from the prefectural government to the city government.Status of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a {{nihongo|metropolis|é½|to}}.WEB, Tokyo - City Guide,weblink japan-guide, 3 September 2017, The 23 special wards of Tokyo, which constitute the core of the Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated cities, towns and villages within its jurisdiction.History
Cities were introduced under the "city code" (shisei, å¸å¶) of 1888National Diet Library Nihon hÅrei sakuin (æ¥æ¬æ³ä»¤ç´¢å¼, "Index of Japanese laws and ordinances"): Entry å¸å¶, List of changes to the law and deliberative histories in the Imperial Diet of the laws that changed it {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917003300weblink |date=2019-09-17 }} (no legislative history of the shisei itself as the law was decreed by the government in 1888 before the Imperial constitution took effect in 1890), List of other laws changed by it {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917003256weblink |date=2019-09-17 }} & entry for the revised å¸å¶ of 1911, Legislative history of the bill in the Imperial Diet {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917003301weblink |date=2019-09-17 }}, Laws changing/abolishing it {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917003300weblink |date=2019-09-17 }}, Laws changed by it {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917003256weblink |date=2019-09-17 }} during the "Great Meiji mergers" (Meiji no daigappei, ææ²»ã®å¤§åä½µ) of 1889. The -shi replaced the previous urban districts/"wards/cities" (-ku) that had existed as primary subdivisions of prefectures besides rural districts (-gun) since 1878. Initially, there were 39 cities in 1889: only one in most prefectures, two in a few (Yamagata, Toyama, Osaka, HyÅgo, Fukuoka), and none in some â Miyazaki became the last prefecture to contain its first city in 1924. In Okinawa-ken and Hokkai-dÅ which were not yet fully equal prefectures in the Empire, major urban settlements remained organized as urban districts until the 1920s: Naha-ku and Shuri-ku, the two urban districts of Okinawa were only turned into Naha-shi and Shuri-shi in May 1921, and six -ku of HokkaidÅ were converted into district-independent cities in August 1922.By 1945, the number of cities countrywide had increased to 205. After WWII, their number almost doubled during the "great ShÅwa mergers" of the 1950s and continued to grow so that it surpassed the number of towns in the early 21st century (see the List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan).MIC: Timeline of number of municipalities since the Great Meiji mergers As of October 1 2018, there are 792 cities of Japan.Zenkoku shichÅkai (å ¨å½å¸é·ä¼; nationwide association of city and special ward mayors)See also
References
{{Reflist}}External links
- Directory of current Japanese city leaders and outline of system (2012)
- JOURNAL, 10.1155/2011/692764, Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s, 2011, Jacobs, A. J., Urban Studies Research, 2011, 1â14, free,
- "Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows Japanese city types at p. 1 [PDF 7 of 40] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917003255weblink |date=2019-09-17 }}
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