Nagasaki Prefecture
- Spring: sea bream, squid, Branchiostegus
- Summer: Trevally, Parapristipoma trilineatum, abalone
- Autumn: mackerel, flying fish, Paralichthys olivaceus
- Winter: Seriola quinqueradiata, Sardinops melanostictus, Puffer Fish
The Nagasaki Prefecture (Japanese长崎 県Nagasaki-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan. It is located in the region of Kyushu on the island of Kyushu. Seat of the prefectural government is the city of Nagasaki.
Geography
The Nagasaki Prefecture is located in the extreme west of Kyushu. As the prefecture is both surrounded by 3 directions from the East China Sea as also consists of numerous small islands, it has after Hokkaidō 4,165 km, the longest coastline of Japan. In the north and north-east it borders the Saga Prefecture.
Larger islands and island groups are Tsushima and Iki in the north in the Tsushima Strait, and the Gotō Islands in the west.
Central is located 320 km ² Omura Bay. This is only connected in the north to about 200 m wide Hario Strait and at its narrowest point 10 m wide Haiki Strait with the Sasebo Bay (佐世保 湾, Sasebo - wan) the East China Sea. West of Omura Bay is the Nishisonogi Peninsula and southwest of the Nagasaki Peninsula. To the southeast is the Ariake Sea, a 1700 km ² large bay, which winds along the Shimabara Peninsula with the dominant ounce volcanic mountains.
History
The Nagasaki prefecture covers the western part of the historic province of Hizen and the island provinces of Tsushima and Iki. In the Edo period, the area in the Saga fief, Shimabara, Omura, Hirado Hirado - Shinden, Fukue and Tsushima Fuchū was ruled. The city of Nagasaki, the foreign trade access to Japan during the Landesabschließung was administered by a magistrate ( Bugyo ) directly from the Shogun.
The Nagasaki Prefecture was in the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as Nagasaki -fu - created out of the former magistrate of the shogunate - a city like Edo or Osaka Prefecture. 1869, the prefecture was in an ordinary prefecture -ken converted. In the following years, the borders changed several times; the Saga Prefecture (temporarily: Imari Prefecture) was finally isolated until 1883 in Nagasaki.
Politics and Administration
- LDP: 22
- Kaikaku21 ( "Reform 21"; DPJ, SDP ): 14
- Kensei Kaikaku Kenmin no Kai (ex -LDP ): 4
- Kōmeitō: 3
- JCP: 1
- Other fractions: 2
Governor of Nagasaki is Hodo Nakamura, who was re-elected in the gubernatorial election in Nagasaki in 2014 for a second term. The 46 members of parliament were elected in the last elections in April 2011. The Liberal Democratic Party with 20 seats clearly strongest party. Elections were last held in conjunction with the gubernatorial election,
In the national parliament Nagasaki is by four directly elected MPs in the House - after the 2012 election, all four Liberal Democrats - and the election represented a House of Lords, after the 2010 and 2013 elections, both Liberal Democrats, including former Governor Genjiro Kaneko.
Administrative divisions
Independent cities (市shi )
- Chūkakushi ( " core city " ) Nagasaki, the seat of the prefectural government
- Sasebo
- Other county-level cities Gotō
- Hirado
- Iki
- Isahaya
- Matsuura
- Minamishimabara
- Omura
- Saikai
- Shimabara
- Tsushima
- Ounces
Counties (郡, gun)
List of districts of Nagasaki Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō ).
- Higashisonogi hasami
- Higashisonogi
- Kawatana
- Kitamatsura Odika
- Saza
- Minamimatsura Shinkamigoto
- Nagayo
- Togitsu
Regional Offices
By 2004, there were on the island of Iki, the Gotō Islands and the island of Tsushima, the sub-prefectures (支 庁, shicho ) Iki, Tsushima and Gotō. 2004, that by the same regional offices (地方 局, Chiho kyoku ) were replaced.
Twinning
- Fujian, People's Republic of China - since 1982
- Shanghai, People's Republic of China - since 1997
- Zeeland, Holland - since 2002
Port of Sasebo
Sofuku -ji in Nagasaki
Castle of Shimabara