Ehime Prefecture
The Ehime Prefecture (Japanese爱媛 県, Ehime - ken) is one of the four prefectures on the island of Shikoku. She went in 1871 from the province of Iyo forth. Seat of the prefectural government is Matsuyama.
Policy
- LDP: 27
- Ishin: 5
- SDP: 3
- Kōmeitō: 3
- DPJ: 3
- JCP: 1
- Other fractions: 2
Governor of Ehime is Tokihiro Nakamura, former mayor of Matsuyama. He was elected to succeed the retiring Moriyuki Kato 2010. In the regular 47 - member parliament that was last selected in the regional elections in April 2011, the Liberal Democratic Party holds an absolute majority.
Ins national Parliament sends Ehime four lower house and two Oberhausābgeordnete. The four lower house seats won in 2012 four Liberal Democrats. In the Upper House representing the prefecture after the 2010 elections and 2013, two Liberal Democrats.
With a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) below 0.4 Ehime belonged in the 2000s to the financially weaker prefectures of the country.
Economy
Ehime is Japan's top supplier of fruit and famous for its tangerines.
Tourism
In Ōzu the cormorant fishing ( ukai ) is maintained and in Uwajima a certificate from the Ryukyu Islands form of bullfighting ( tōgyū ), which is comparable to the Swiss Cow wrestling.
Administrative divisions
Large cities (市shi )
- Seat of the prefectural government: Matsuyama
- Imabari
- Iyo
- Niihama
- Ōzu
- Saijō
- Seiyo
- Shikokuchuo
- Toon
- Uwajima
- Yawatahama
Counties (郡, gun)
List of districts of Ehime Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō or machi ).
- Iyo Masaki
- Tobe
- Kumakogen
- Kita Uchiko
- Kihoku
- Matsuno
- Ainan
- Nishiuwa Ikata
- Kamijima