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Later, in 1871, the government designated Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto as fu, and relegated the other fu to the status of ken. During World War II, in 1943, Tokyo became a to, a new type of pseudo-prefecture. Despite the differences in terminology, there is little functional difference between the four types of local governments.
Osaka Keihanshin MMA as of 2015 with core cities in dark blue: Osaka, Sakai, Kyoto, Kobe. The Japan Statistics Bureau defines a Major Metropolitan Area or MMA (大都市圏) as a set of municipalities where at least 1.5% of the resident population aged 15 and above commute to school or work in a designated city (defined as the core area). [7]
Tokyo: Nishio Toshizō (concurrent governor of Tokyo) Tōbu (Eastern) Tōkai-Hokuriku: Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Toyama, Ishikawa: Nagoya City: Obata Tadayoshi (previous governor of Aichi) Tōkai Kinki: Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Nara, Wakayama, Fukui: Osaka City: Yasui Eiji (previous governor of Osaka) Chūbu (Central) Chūgoku
The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropolitan region of Osaka , Kobe and Kyoto ( Keihanshin region) is the second-most populated in Japan after the Greater Tokyo Area .
Tokyo merged with its surrounding municipalities in 1932, radically increasing its size and population. 2: 3: Osaka: Osaka: 3,252,340 + 32.53%: Osaka reached its peak population, becoming the second Japanese city to exceed 3 million people, alongside Tokyo. It has not yet surpassed its 1940 population. 3: 4: Nagoya: Aichi: 1,328,084 + 46.36%
The top tier of administrative divisions are the 47 prefectural entities: 43 prefectures (県, ken) proper, two urban prefectures (府, fu, Osaka and Kyōto), one "circuit" (道, dō, Hokkaidō), and one "metropolis" (都, to, Tokyo Metropolis). Although different in name, they are functionally the same.
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The Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) defines a metropolitan area as one or more central cities and its associated outlying municipalities. To qualify as an outlying municipality, the municipality must have at least 1.5% of its resident population aged 15 and above commuting to school or work into one of the central cities.