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I have removed subprefectures that, to me, seem not actual. I think this is due to a confusion with shityo used in Kishotyo ( Japan Meteorological Agency). They are not part of administrative units or Japanese addressing system. -- Taku 22:59, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
From TakuyaMurata's talkpage.
Prefectures other than Hokkaido and Nagasaki have Shicho's. Assuming you can read Japanese, please try following examples. These are in the prefectural government web sites.
Shicho's today are not used for addressing and Hokkaido is not an exception. Only occasionally, however, towns and villages on islands of Tokyo are (erroneously) called with shicho's.
If you are talking about the past (before 1947), shicho's were peculiar to Hokkaido, but nowadays all prefectures are on the equal plane and they may or may not have shicho's by their own discretion. Listing only shicho's in Hokkaido is misleading. Peoples tend to believe Hokkaido is a special prefecture, as were in the past, but all its remaining speciality is its fancy name.
As to www.glin.org, it seems a nice site. But a personal site can not compete agsinst prefectural government official sites. As the shicho has the least sense for most peoples, it is not surprising the author of www.glin.org does not know all. What I had listed may not be exhaustive as well.
Although "subprefecture" is often used to refer to Hokkaido's shicho, I have never heard "subprefecture" used to refer to shicho in Chiba. Google doesn't seem to have any either: a search on "chiba subprefecture" only returned results based on Wikipedia, as well as a newspaper article in Hokkaido. Chiba calls its shicho "branch offices," which I think is a much more appropriate name, since the shicho don't seem to have any authority of their own. Sekicho 08:42, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)
With all that settled, I have another question. Where did these dates come from? From what I understand in the Japanese Wikipedia (and from what I've written in other articles), Hokkaido was only an agency (開拓史) for a couple of decades in the Meiji era, and has had prefectural status (道) since the 1880's. Sekicho 07:36, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)
The numbers and letters shown on the map seem to be placed far away from the entities they indicate. -- Beland ( talk) 20:51, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Which of the areas, subprefectures, and municipalities represented the former Sapporo, Hakodate and Nemuro Prefectures? Drop your comment and lemme know. jlog3000 ( talk) 18:27, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
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I have removed subprefectures that, to me, seem not actual. I think this is due to a confusion with shityo used in Kishotyo ( Japan Meteorological Agency). They are not part of administrative units or Japanese addressing system. -- Taku 22:59, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
From TakuyaMurata's talkpage.
Prefectures other than Hokkaido and Nagasaki have Shicho's. Assuming you can read Japanese, please try following examples. These are in the prefectural government web sites.
Shicho's today are not used for addressing and Hokkaido is not an exception. Only occasionally, however, towns and villages on islands of Tokyo are (erroneously) called with shicho's.
If you are talking about the past (before 1947), shicho's were peculiar to Hokkaido, but nowadays all prefectures are on the equal plane and they may or may not have shicho's by their own discretion. Listing only shicho's in Hokkaido is misleading. Peoples tend to believe Hokkaido is a special prefecture, as were in the past, but all its remaining speciality is its fancy name.
As to www.glin.org, it seems a nice site. But a personal site can not compete agsinst prefectural government official sites. As the shicho has the least sense for most peoples, it is not surprising the author of www.glin.org does not know all. What I had listed may not be exhaustive as well.
Although "subprefecture" is often used to refer to Hokkaido's shicho, I have never heard "subprefecture" used to refer to shicho in Chiba. Google doesn't seem to have any either: a search on "chiba subprefecture" only returned results based on Wikipedia, as well as a newspaper article in Hokkaido. Chiba calls its shicho "branch offices," which I think is a much more appropriate name, since the shicho don't seem to have any authority of their own. Sekicho 08:42, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)
With all that settled, I have another question. Where did these dates come from? From what I understand in the Japanese Wikipedia (and from what I've written in other articles), Hokkaido was only an agency (開拓史) for a couple of decades in the Meiji era, and has had prefectural status (道) since the 1880's. Sekicho 07:36, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)
The numbers and letters shown on the map seem to be placed far away from the entities they indicate. -- Beland ( talk) 20:51, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Which of the areas, subprefectures, and municipalities represented the former Sapporo, Hakodate and Nemuro Prefectures? Drop your comment and lemme know. jlog3000 ( talk) 18:27, 26 August 2013 (UTC)