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Noun(1) the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire(2) the office of prefect(3) the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)

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(1) Takamatsu, in the prefecture of Kagawa, on the island of Shikoku, to the south of Japan is to noodle lovers what Mecca is to Muslims.(2) Her inquiries included evidence being laid before the judge at first instance of correspondence between herself and appropriate medical authorities in the prefecture that included Salonika and her village and areas.(3) In 1905 the islands were u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510incorporatedu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb into the Japanese Empire, when the Governor of Shimane prefecture stated that the islands were under the juristiction of the Shimane prefectural government.(4) But first an application has to be made to the local prefecture (police authority) with a mountain of paperwork involved.(5) The prefecture will stop using workshops for industrial production, and settlers in the General Building of the General Zhang Aiping will be relocated.(6) The AM signal is heard throughout the island prefecture - and beyond.(7) The Okinawa prefecture was in fact under direct U.S. military administration from 1945 to 1972, when it was handed over to the Japanese.(8) One of his first tasks after buying a dilapidated farmhouse in the Chiba prefecture , about 60 miles east of Tokyo, was to build a huge wooden bathtub.(9) These might look ordinary trees, but they are in fact a very special present from the governor of the Nara prefecture in Japan.(10) To avoid the name calling that a woman would probably receive at a horse fair, he got permission from the prefecture of police to dress in men's clothing.(11) Nagano Prefecture was brought into the limelight with the successful 1998 Winter Olympics which were held at various locations in the prefecture .(12) Typhoon Khanun was located about 70 kilometers south of Miyako Island in the prefecture as of 3 p.m. Saturday and was heading northwest at 25 km per hour, the agency said.(13) The island prefecture of Okinawa has the most centenarians per population, and the official attributed this to the subtropical climate.(14) The snag is that running a music festival miles from anywhere doesn't come cheap, even with generous subsidies from the prefectural coffers.(15) The quake was most strongly felt in Aomori and Iwate, the two farthest-north prefectures on Japan's main island of Honshu.(16) The country is divided into 47 prefectures , each with a governor.