Subject: Re: Japanese cross prefectural consolidation<br/>
Date: Apr 16, 2005 @ 01:34<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1150800168">this remarkable location may be found on the border between prefectures 9 & 26 <br/>
about a quarter of the way up from prefecture 1 to prefecture 43<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/japan_divisions.jpg">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/japan_divisions.jpg</a><br/>
so i realize it doesnt affect any multiprefectural points<br/>
<br/>
& not that i really expect arabic numeral order based on european transliteration & <br/>
alphabetical order to actually be observed & apply in japan <br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but it reminds me to ask you henry whether you are aware of any monumentation of the <br/>
multiprefectural points<br/>
for example <br/>
or of the lesser multipoints if indeed there are any<br/>
or of any particular enthusiasm for any of these points<br/>
or of any tries to visit & or to specially acknowledge them etc in any way<br/>
<br/>
i have noticed on my crude maps that the overwhelming majority of the prefectural <br/>
multipoints appear to be dry<br/>
as most of the boundaries that produce them seem to prefer watersheds to watercourses<br/>
<br/>
so i could even imagine & or hope sawanobori might be an aspect of such visitations<br/>
<br/>
but this is all pure fantasy unencumbered by any actual knowledge of the reality there<br/>
unless you can offer some kind of a summary report that would begin to fill in our still <br/>
completely empty map & blank slate of bp japan<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Henry Hirose&quot; &lt;silentcity@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; On Feb. 13, 2005 the first changes in Japanese prefectural boundaries in<br/>
&gt; over 40 years took place.  Yamaguchi-mura (village) was detached from Nagano<br/>
&gt; Prefecture and annexed to Nakatsugawa-shi (city) in Gifu Prefecture.  These<br/>
&gt; agglomerations into existing city limits are currently in vogue in the name<br/>
&gt; of administrative efficiency.  What makes this unusual is that it involved<br/>
&gt; changing prefectural coundaries.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; The last time prefectural boundaries changed was in 1958 and it involved the<br/>
&gt; same area.  The then Village of Misaka was split and part of it was annexed<br/>
&gt; to Gifu.  Now the remaining half, the former Village of Yamaguchi, has also<br/>
&gt; gone to Gifu.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I have done google searches and there does not seem to be any English<br/>
&gt; language coverage of this rather rare event.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I got this off the Japanese language enclave website cited in message<br/>
&gt; #16037.  I had viewed that from time to time but now the content and<br/>
&gt; research is first rate.  Particulary detailed are the East Asian content,<br/>
&gt; for example the multitudes of cases of extraterritoriality in China<br/>
&gt; including &quot;land attached to the Southern Manchuria Railway.&quot;<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Henry Hirose<br/>
&gt; silentcity@h... </span></blockquote></div>