Subject: Japanese cross prefectural consolidation<br/>
Date: Apr 14, 2005 @ 15:43<br/>
Author: Henry Hirose (&quot;Henry Hirose&quot; &lt;silentcity@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1291209709">On Feb. 13, 2005 the first changes in Japanese prefectural boundaries in<br/>
over 40 years took place.  Yamaguchi-mura (village) was detached from Nagano<br/>
Prefecture and annexed to Nakatsugawa-shi (city) in Gifu Prefecture.  These<br/>
agglomerations into existing city limits are currently in vogue in the name<br/>
of administrative efficiency.  What makes this unusual is that it involved<br/>
changing prefectural coundaries.<br/>
<br/>
The last time prefectural boundaries changed was in 1958 and it involved the<br/>
same area.  The then Village of Misaka was split and part of it was annexed<br/>
to Gifu.  Now the remaining half, the former Village of Yamaguchi, has also<br/>
gone to Gifu.<br/>
<br/>
I have done google searches and there does not seem to be any English<br/>
language coverage of this rather rare event.<br/>
<br/>
I got this off the Japanese language enclave website cited in message<br/>
#16037.  I had viewed that from time to time but now the content and<br/>
research is first rate.  Particulary detailed are the East Asian content,<br/>
for example the multitudes of cases of extraterritoriality in China<br/>
including &quot;land attached to the Southern Manchuria Railway.&quot;<br/>
<br/>
Henry Hirose<br/>
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