Gifu Prefecture

The Gifu Prefecture (Japanese岐阜県, Gifu - ken) is a prefecture of Japan. It is located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshu. Seat of the prefectural government is the city of Gifu. In the area of present-day Gifu Prefecture existed until the Meiji period, the provinces of Hida (northern part, capital: Takayama ) and Mino (southern part, capital: Kasamatsu ).

Politics and Administration

Kensei Jimin Club: 30
Kenmin Club (Democratic Party): 8
Kōmeitō: 2
JCP: 1
Non-attached Members: 3

A former official Hajime Furuta since 2005 Governor of Gifu, he was recently confirmed a CPY -supported candidates in office at the governor election in 2013 against only. In Parliament, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ) was able to increase its absolute majority in 30 of the 46 seats in the elections in April 2011, the Democratic Party came to eight seats. In total there were 2011 20 MPs, including 16 Liberal Democrat, unopposed, were thus chosen without a vote.

Into the national parliament elects Gifu five deputies directly to the House and since 2013 only one instead of two per part of election to the House of Lords. Since the introduction of Einmandatswahlkreise for the lower house of the prefecture was initially a safe " conservative kingdom": All seats went to the LDP before three candidates of the Democratic Party in 2009 were able to defeat the LDP incumbent. 2012 went back all five constituencies in the LDP. In the upper house Gifu went - now Einmandatswahlkreis - in the 2013 election, when no incumbent standing for re-election, certainly in the LDP.

In particular, there is a delegation from the national Parliament:

In the House Constituency 1: Seiko Noda (LDP ), granddaughter and adopted daughter of Minister of Construction Uichi Noda,
Constituency 2: Yasufumi Tanahashi (LDP ), grandson of Governor and State Planning Minister Yukiyasu Matsuno,
Constituency 3: Yoji Muto (LDP ), son of Foreign Minister Kabun Muto,
Constituency 4: Kazuyoshi Kaneko (LDP ), son of Minister of Finance Ippei Kaneko,
Constituency 5: Keiji Furuya (LDP ), adopted son of Interior Minister Tōru Furuya,

2016 Takeyuki Watanabe (LDP),
Yoshiharu Komiyama (DP ), and

Yasutada Ōno (LDP ), prior to his election in 2013 for ten years a deputy in the Parliament Prefecture, Son of traffic and Labor Minister Akira Ōno, grandson of LDP co-founder Bamboku Ōno.

The " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) of Gifu prefecture exceeded the 0.5 mark in the fiscal year 2007 ( Fj. 2009: 0.55, rank 17). The Gifu Prefecture can therefore finance more than half of their theoretically calculated expenditure from its own resources and belongs to the top group of recipients of " regional allocation taxes ".

Administrative divisions

Large cities (市shi )

Seat of the prefectural government: Gifu

Ena
Gero
Gujō
Hashima
Hida

Kaizu
Inuyama
Kani
Mino
Minokamo

Mizuho
Mizunami
Motosu
Nakatsugawa
Ōgaki

Seki
Tajimi
Takayama
Toki
Yamagata

Counties (郡, gun)

List of districts of Gifu Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō or machi ) and villages (村, mura or son).

Ampachi Ampachi
Godo
Wanouchi

Sekigahara
Tarui

Ginan
Kasamatsu

Ibi Ibigawa
Ikeda
Ōno

Hichiso
Higashishirakawa
Kawabe
Sakahogi
Shirakawa
Tomika
Yaotsu

Kani Mitake

Kitagata

Shirakawa

Yoro

Biggest Towns

Shirakawa- gō

Ibuki -san

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