Iwate Prefecture
The Iwate Prefecture (Japanese岩手 県, Iwate-ken ) is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located in the Tōhoku region. Seat of the prefectural government is Morioka. Iwate Prefecture is a partner in the German state of Rhineland- Palatinate.
Geography
The Iwate Prefecture is located in the north of the main island of Honshu, Aomori Prefecture to the south of, east of Akita prefecture and just north of Miyagi Prefecture. The prefecture consists mainly of mountains and high plateaus ( Ou Mountains and Kitakami Highlands ) that run up to the coast in the east. In the west, on the border of Akita Prefecture is completed by the Ou Mountains. The otherwise mountainous Iwate is cut in a north-south direction of a valley ( Kitakami River ), in the Morioka and most other cities in the prefecture are.
The Iwate prefecture is determined by agricultural use and scenic beauty. The industrialization is low.
History
By the end of the Meiji period Iwate was the central part of the province of Mutsu. The province came in the Heian period (794-1185) under the control of the central government, was ruled during the eleventh and twelfth century by the Ōshū - Fujiwara clan. My seat of government was Hiraizumi, which is a tourist attraction to this day. In the sixteenth century and in the following Edo period (1603-1868), the region was divided into several independent fiefdom. In 1869 the province Rikuchu separated from Mutsu, among others, which corresponded to the extent of approximately Iwate. The present name Iwate and the existing current limitations got the prefecture in 1876 in the wake of the former territorial reforms.
The prefecture was rocked on 11 March 2011 by the Tohoku earthquake and the communities on the coast ( from north to south: Hirono, Kuji, Noda, Fudai, Tanohata, Hiraizumi, Miyako, Yamada, Otsuchi, Kamaishi, Ofunato, Rikuzentakata ) hit hard by a subsequent tsunami, which led to many deaths.
Policy
- DPJ: 13
- LDP: 12
- Kibo · Mirai Forum ( "Forum Hope Future " ): 10
- Chiiki Seito Iwate: 4
- SDP: 3
- JCP: 2
- Kōmeitō ( NI): 1
- Non-attached Members: 3
Governor of Iwate since 2007 Takuya Tasso, who was elected with the support of the then opposition Democratic Party at the national level. He was confirmed in the shifted due to the Tōhoku earthquake gubernatorial election on 11 September 2011 for a second term. At the same time, the Democratic Party was with 23 of the 48 seats to defend their status as the strongest party in the earthquake also shifted due to election. In 2007 she was the nation's first emerged as the strongest force in Parliament Prefecture Iwate. 2012 was followed by Governor Tasso Ichirō Ozawa from the party.
Iwate Prefecture is the home of Ichirō Ozawa and since the 1990s, though altogether essentially rural in nature, a relative stronghold of his party: the New Progressive Party, the Liberal Party and finally the Democratic Party. 2012 Ozawa left the party and the Democrats in Iwate bifurcated. The governor and about half of the members in the Prefecture Parliament and of the representatives in the national parliament Iwates followed Ozawa in the Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi, the Nippon Mirai no Tō and finally the Seikatsu no Tō.
In the national parliament Iwate is represented by four directly elected representatives in the House and two in the council house. After the elections of 2010, 2012 and 2013, the delegation Iwates is the national parliament of (August 2013):
- Chamber of Deputies Constituency 1: Takeshi Shina (DP),
- Constituency 2: Shun'ichi Suzuki ( LDP),
- Constituency 3: Tōru Kikawada (DP),
- Constituency 4: Ichirō Ozawa ( Seikatsu no Tō )
- 2016: Ryo Shuhama ( Seikatsu no Tō ) and
- 2019: Tatsuo Hirano (independent member of the Shinto Kaikaku Group ).
With a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) of less than 0.4, Iwate belongs to the second weakest of the four groups of prefectures, where financial compensation taxes are allocated by central government. The prefecture had risen from the financially weakest group in 2007.
The prefecture is connected through friendly relations with Rhineland- Palatinate.
Administrative divisions
Independent cities (市shi )
- Chūkakushi ( " core city " ) Morioka, the seat of the prefectural government
- Hachimantai
- Hanamaki
- Ichinoseki
- Kamaishi
- Kitakami
- Kuji
- Miyako
- Ninohe
- Ofunato
- ōshū
- Rikuzentakata
- Takizawa
- Tono
Counties (郡, gun)
List of districts of Iwate Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō or machi ) and villages (村, mura ).
- Isawa Kanegasaki
- Iwate
- Kuzumaki
- Shizukuishi
- Otsuchi
- Kesen Sumita
- Karumai
- Kunohe
- Noda
- Hirono
- Ichinohe
- Nishiiwai Hiraizumi
- Fudai
- Iwaizumi
- Tanohata
- Yamada
- Shiwa Shiwa
- Yahaba
- Nishiwaga
Blumenbestecktes house
Monument of Matsuo Bashō
Noh stage in Chuson -ji
Prefecture Iwate University in Morioka
Park in Morioka
Mount Iwate
Kitakami River