Gunma Prefecture

The Gunma prefecture (Japanese群 马 県, Gunma -ken / Gumma - ken) is a prefecture of Japan. It is located in the Kantō region on the island of Honshu. Seat of the prefectural government is Maebashi.

Politics and Administration

• LDP: 31
• Liberal Gunma: 7
• Shinseikai (新星 会): 3
• Kōmeitō: 3
• Sofu (爽 风): 2
• JCP: 2

Governor of Gunma 's second term, Masaaki Osawa, the (former LDP) could defeat in 2007 as a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) incumbent Hiroyuki Kodera. Osawa was nationwide in his first term, the only governor with formal party affiliation, in the gubernatorial election in July 2011, he has now formally re-elected as a non-party with LDP support. In Parliament, the LDP holds a clear absolute majority after the last elections in April 2011.

Gunma is a " conservative kingdom" ( Hoshu Okoku ), ie an LDP stronghold and the home prefecture of the LDP party leader Prime Minister Fukuda, Nakasone and Obuchi, whose descendants Tatsuo Fukuda, Hirofumi Nakasone and Yuko Obuchi still for Gunma in the national Parliament sitting. Thither selects Gunma five deputies directly to the House of Representatives - 2012 won the LDP after losses of 2009 all five seats - and a total of two deputies to the council house, after the elections of 2007 and 2010, both Liberal Democrats.

The " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) of the prefecture for several years about 0.5, ie Gunma may cover more than half of his theoretical financial needs from its own tax revenue and is therefore in the national comparison in the upper middle.

Administrative divisions

Independent cities (市shi )

• Chūkakushi ( " core cities " ) Maebashi, seat of the prefectural government
• Takasaki

• Isesaki
• Ōta

• Other county-level cities annaka
• Fujioka
• Kiryu
• Midori

• Numata
• Shibukawa
• Tatebayashi
• Tomioka

Counties (郡, gun)

List of districts of Gunma Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, machi ) and villages (村, mura ).

• Agatsuma Higashiagatsuma
• Kusatsu
• Naganohara
• Nakanojō
• Takayama
• Tsumagoi

• Kanra Kanra
• Nammoku
• Shimonita

• Shinto
• Yoshioka

• Chiyoda
• Itakura
• Meiwa
• Oizumi
• ORA

• Sawa Tamamura

• Kanna
• Ueno

• Katashina
• Kawaba
• Minakami
• Shōwa

Biggest Towns

Tonegawa

Maebashi