Tokushima Prefecture
The Tokushima Prefecture (Japanese徳 岛 県, Tokushima - ken) is a prefecture of Japan. It is located in the region on the island of Shikoku Shikoku, went in 1871 from the province of Awa forth. Seat of the prefectural government is the city of Tokushima.
There is an official partnership between the prefecture and the state of Lower Saxony.
Politics and Administration
- LDP / Kenmin kaigi: 19
- Meiseikai (明政 会): 7
- Shimpū / Minshu Club: 5
- Kōmeitō: 2
- JCP: 2
- Minna: 1
- Non-attached Members: 1
In the third term governor of Tokushima Kamon Iizumi is. He was elected in 2003 with the support of Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and Kōmeitō against Tadashi Ōta, who resigned after less than a year in office because of a no-confidence vote, and finally confirmed in the uniform regional elections in April 2011. In Parliament, the LDP won an absolute majority with 21 of the total 41 seats in the unified local elections. Your MEPs are distributed along with non-party to two fractions.
Ins national Parliament sends Tokushima three directly elected MPs in the House - 2012, all three Liberal Democrats - and two in the House of Lords, after the by-elections in 2010 and 2013, both Liberal Democrats. From 1998 to 2004 Sekiko Takahashi, was the daughter of former LDP Chairman Takeo Miki, Upper House MP for Tokushima and joined the conservative- green " green meeting " from Atsuo Nakamura on.
Tokushima is one with a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) below 0.4 to the financially weaker prefectures of the country.
Administrative divisions
( Independent ) cities (市shi )
- Seat of the prefectural government: Tokushima
- Anan
- Awa
- Komatsushima
- Mima
- Miyoshi
- Naruto
- Yoshinogawa
Counties (郡, gun)
List of counties of Tokushima Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō ) and villages (村, son).
- Itano Aizumi
- Itano
- Kamiita
- Kitajima
- Matsushige
- Kaifu Kaiyo
- Minami
- Mugi
- Kamikatsu
- Katsuura
- Mima Tsurugi
- Higashimiyoshi
- Sanagouchi
- Myozai Ishii
- Kamiyama
- Naka