Mie Prefecture

The Mie Prefecture (Japanese三重県, Mie-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan. It is located in the Kinki region on Honshu island. Seat of the prefectural government is Tsu.

Name

According to the Kojiki, the name comes Mie, literally, " triple ", Yamato Takeru. When he sets out to subdue the deity of Mount Ibuki, he must first overcome a mountain on which this deity to meet him sends a fierce freezing rain and then the Tagi level (当艺野) pass through. When he finally reached a village, he says:

Then the village and thus the region was given the name Mihe or Mie. Yamato Takeru died shortly after his exertions.

Politics and Administration

Shinsei Mie (DPJ, non-party ): 24
Jimin Mirai (LDP, non-party ): 20
Yozan (鹰山): 3
Kōmeitō: 2
Minna: 1

The sixth elected governor of Mie is since 2011 the former LDP candidate for the national parliament Eikei Suzuki. He was the center-left candidate Naohisa Matsuda beat short of the unified regional elections in April 2011. Parliament, which is also elected at the uniform regional elections, has 51 regular members. In the 2011 elections, the LDP has 19 seats while the strongest party, but DPJ -led faction Shinsei Mie is the strongest faction.

Mie Prefecture is the home of former DPJ Chairman Katsuya Okada; and although only the north, which is part of the Pacific belt cities and belongs to Chūkyō - metropolitan Nagoya, is more urbanized and industrialized, the Democratic Party is relatively strong. In the 2009 elections for Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, Democrats were able to win four of the five Shūgiin constituencies in Mie, the southern, predominantly rural constituency Mie 5 defended the Liberal Democrat Norio Mitsuya. In the statewide landslide defeat in 2012, the DPJ defended two constituencies, three seats went to the Liberal Democrats. In the national upper house, the Sangiin, Mie is one of the Einmandatswahlkreisen and is represented by the 2010 and 2013 elections by a Democrat and one Liberal Democrat.

With a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) 0.6 Mie is financially stronger prefectures of the country.

Administrative divisions

Independent cities (市shi )

Tokureishi ( "Special City " ) Yokkaichi

Iga
Inabe
Ise

Kameyama
Kumano
Kuwana
Matsusaka
Nabari

Owase
Shima
Suzuka
Toba
Tsu, seat of the prefectural government

Counties (郡, gun)

List of districts of Mie Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō ).

Inabe Toin

Kihoku

Kisosaki

Mie Asahi
Kawagoe
Komono

Kiho
Mihama

Taki Meiwa
Odai
Taki

Watarai Minami- ise
Taiki
Tamaki
Watarai

History

Attractions

Festivals

Sports

In the place Suzuka find the Japanese Formula 1 races.

Partnerships

The Mie Prefecture has partnerships with:

Henan province in the People's Republic of China
Republic of Palau
State of São Paulo in Brazil
Region of Valencia in Spain

Ise Shrine

Birthplace of Matsuo Basho

Pearl diver

Ago Bay

Suzuka International Racing Course

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