Kōchi Prefecture

The Kōchi Prefecture (Japanese高 知 県, Kōchi - ken) is a prefecture of Japan. She went in 1871 from the province of Tosa forth. The prefecture is located in the region on the island of Shikoku Shikoku. Seat of the prefectural government is the city of Kōchi.

Policy

  • LDP: 22
  • JCP: 5
  • Kōmeitō: 3
  • Kenseikai: 3
  • Kenmin Club (DPJ, Social Democratic Party ): 2
  • Minamikaze: 1
  • Midori no Kai: 1

Governor of Kōchi 's second term Masanao Ozaki. It was founded in 2007 as Allparteienkandidat (without Japanese Communist Party, JCP ) elected to succeed the profiled Governor Daijiro Hashimoto, the half-brother of Ryutaro Hashimoto, and 2011, when even the Communists nominated no opposing candidates, re-elected without a vote. The Parliament has 39 regular members from 16 constituencies, of which eight Einmandatswahlkreise, six two- mandate constituencies, the four- mandate constituency Takaoka district and constituency city Kōchi who elects 15 deputies. It was last elected in the unified regional elections in April 2011 and is dominated by non-party members of which the majority of the Group of the Liberal Democratic Party have connected (LDP ).

Kōchi is for the House of Representatives in the national parliament an intact " conservative kingdom," an LDP stronghold, and even with the statewide LDP defeat in 2009, the party won all three constituencies Kochi. After the introduction of the single constituencies Kōchi 1996, however, was initially in addition to the CPY stronghold Kyoto is the only prefecture, a Communist could win a direct mandate. In the councils House since the election of 2007, two Democrats representing the prefecture. There, a sustained since 1959 LDP winning streak was interrupted for the first time in 1989 and beginning with the election victory of the Independent Hajime Hirota 2004 lost LDP candidates Kōchi three times in a row. 2013 won the LDP one of the two seats in the council house back.

With a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) below 0.25 ( FY2008: 0.23) Kōchi heard next Shimane prefectures of the financially weakest in the country. Also, most communities Kochis are financially weak, population and tax revenues focus on the prefectural capital Kōchi: In Fj. In 2007, Kōchi and the east adjacent Nankoku after the financial strength index the only communities that were able to cover more than half of their financial needs from their own resources.

Tourism

The Shimanto River is considered the last free-flowing river in Japan and is one of the main attractions of the Kōchi Prefecture.

Administrative divisions

Large cities (市shi )

  • Seat of the prefectural government: Kōchi
  • Aki
  • Kami
  • Kōnan
  • Muroto
  • Nankoku
  • Shimanto
  • Sukumo
  • Susaki
  • Tosa
  • Tosashimizu

Counties (郡, gun)

List of counties of the Kōchi Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō ) and villages (村, mura ).

  • Agawa Ino
  • Niyodogawa
  • Geisei
  • Kitagawa
  • Nahari
  • Tano
  • Toyo
  • Umaji
  • Yasuda
  • Hata Kuroshio
  • Mihara
  • Otsuki
  • Motoyama
  • Otoyo
  • Takaoka Hidaka
  • Nakatosa
  • Ochi
  • Sakawa
  • Shimanto
  • Tsuno
  • Yusuhara
  • Ōkawa
  • Tosa

Shimantogawa

Castle Kōchi

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