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Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県, Kanagawa-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. [2] Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at 3,800 inhabitants per square kilometre (9,800/sq mi).
Kanagawa's current governor is former news anchor Yūji Kuroiwa who was elected in the unified local elections in 2011 with support from Liberal Democrats, Democrats and Kōmeitō, i.e. as a de facto all-party candidate of the established non-Communist parties though the recently created Your Party and the network movement together supported the candidacy of Jun'ichi Tsuyuki who surpassed the ...
The Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly was established on 22 July 1878 and prefectural rule was established on the basis of the 1878 Prefectural Regulation No.18 (daijō-kan No. 18). [1] For the first assembly, 47 members were elected by registered votes from one district and 15 counties. [2] The term is four years.
Under a set of 1888–1890 laws on local government [2] until the 1920s, each prefecture (then only 3 -fu and 42 -ken; Hokkaidō and Okinawa-ken were subject to different laws until the 20th century) was subdivided into cities (市, shi) and districts (郡, gun) and each district into towns (町, chō/machi) and villages (村, son/mura).
Yokohama (Japanese: 横浜, pronounced ⓘ) is the second-largest city in Japan by population [1] and by area, and the country's most populous municipality. [a] It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023.
The Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education (神奈川県教育委員会) is the board of education for Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. The board consists of six members; one of them is elected as the chair , and one of them is appointed by the board as the superintendent .
Higashikuze Michitomi April–November 1868; Terashima Munenori 1868–1869; Mutsu Munemitsu 1871–1872; Ōe Taku 1872–1874; Nomura Yasushi 1876–1881; Asada Tokunori (1st term) 1889–1891
Hiratsuka has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 26 members. Hiratsuka contributes three members to the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Kanagawa 15th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.