Yamanashi Prefecture
The Yamanashi Prefecture (山 梨 県Japanese, Yamanashi-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan. The prefecture located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshu. The seat of the prefectural government is Kōfu.
The name literally means mountain pear Pyrus pyrifolia var and refers to the pyrifolia.
History
The prefecture is the successor of Kai Province and was the site of action of Takeda Shingen. Also located in Yamanashi, the Kai Hyakuhachi Reijo, the 108 spiritual places of Kai.
Geography
Yamanashi is located on the southern part of the Japanese Alps and shares with the Shizuoka Prefecture of Mount Fuji, for which it serves as a starting point.
Politics and Administration
- LDP: 15
- Sōmeikai (创 明 会, LDP ): 14
- Forum Mirai (DP ): 7
- Kōmeitō: 1
- JCP: 1
Governor of Yamanashi 's second term Shomei Yokouchi, a former Liberal Democrat Member of the House and Secretary of State, who could beat his center-left -based predecessor Takahiko Yamamoto at the second attempt in 2007. In the gubernatorial election in 2011, he was sustained against only one communist opposition candidates in office. Dominate in Parliament - in the majority conservative - Independent, which accounted for 21 of the 38 seats in the elections in April 2011. The only significantly represented party is the Liberal Democratic Party with 14 mandates, their elected representatives but distributed together with the Independents on various parliamentary factions.
For the lower house of the national parliament Yamanashi, together with the highly urbanized prefectures of Chiba and Kanagawa heard, although geographically usually not expected to Kantō, for proportional representation block South Kanto. And although Yamanashi is characterized more rural than the rest of the region, won the Democratic Party of 2009, all three lower house constituencies and presented according to the 2007 and 2010 elections, both representatives of the Prefecture of the House of Lords, including the ex- socialists Azuma Koshiishi the long-standing chairman of the Democratic Upper House Group, since 2013 Vice President of the Chamber. In the general election, 2012, the LDP was able to win a constituency, a defended the Democrats won a non-party Nagasaki Kotaro against candidates of both major parties. And in the upper house election in 2013 of the former prefecture MPs Hiroshi Moriya Yamanashi for the LDP to win, which is so since then also represented in the House of Lords by a Liberal Democrat and a Democrat.
With a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) 0.4 Yamanashi is financially weaker prefectures of the country.
Administrative divisions
( Independent ) cities (市shi )
- Tokureishi ( "Special City " ) Kōfu, seat of the prefectural government
- Chūō
- Fuefuki
- Fujiyoshida
- Hokuto
- Quay
- Kōshū
- Minami -Alps
- Nirasaki
- Otsuki
- Tsuru
- Uenohara
- Yamanashi
Counties (郡, gun)
List of counties of the Yamanashi Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō or machi ) and villages (村, mura ).
- Kitatsuru Kosuge
- Tabayama
- Fujikawa
- Hayakawa
- Minobu
- Nambu
- Yamanashi Doshi
- Fujikawaguchiko
- Narusawa
- Nishikatsura
- Oshino
- Yamanakako
- Shōwa
- Ichikawamisato
Biggest Towns
Seen from the center of Yamanashi flow Fuefuki from