Villages of Japan
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A village (村 mura, sometimes son) is a local administrative unit in Japan.
It is a local public body along with prefecture (県 ken, or other equivalents), city (市 shi), and town (町 chō, sometimes machi). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.
It is larger than an actual settlement, being in actuality a subdivision of a rural district (郡 gun), which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area.
As a result of mergers, the number of villages in Japan is decreasing.
Prefectures without villages [edit]
(As of April 1, 2008)
- Ehime (several recent mergers, the last of which was on January 16, 2005)
- Fukui
- Hyōgo
- Hiroshima
- Ishikawa
- Kagawa
- Mie
- Nagasaki
- Saga
- Shiga (the village of Kutsuki merged with several other towns to form the new city of Takashima on January 1, 2005)
- Shizuoka
- Tochigi
- Yamaguchi
Only Hyōgo and Kagawa prefectures had no villages from before the Heisei mergers.
Prefectures with exactly one village [edit]
(As of April 1, 2008)
- Kanagawa (Kiyokawa, Aikō District)
- Kyōto (Minamiyamashiro, Soraku District)
- Miyagi (Ōhira, Kurokawa District)
- Ōita (Himeshima, Higashikunisaki District)
- Ōsaka (Chihayaakasaka, Minamikawachi District)
- Saitama (Higashichichibu, Chichibu District)
- Shimane (Chibu, Oki District)
- Tokushima (Sanagōchi, Myōdō District)
- Tottori (Hiezu, Saihaku District)
- Toyama (Funahashi, Nakaniikawa District)
- Wakayama (Kitayama, Higashimuro District)
