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■ ― Designated cities
■ ― Core cities
■ ― Special cities circle 686 132 4 Sapporo circle 661 213 4 Hakodate circle 729 86 4 Asahikawa circle 664 271 4 Aomori circle 699 289 4 Hachinohe circle 686 339 4 Morioka circle 675 428 4 Sendai circle 636 340 4 Akita circle 650 430 4 Yamagata circle 652 483 4 Kōriyama circle 679 504 4 Iwaki circle 660 547 4 Mito circle 995 878 4 Tsukuba circle 951 734 4 Utsunomiya circle 768 780 4 Maebashi circle 754 799 4 Takasaki circle 798 802 4 Isesaki circle 838 807 4 Ōta circle 899 927 4 Saitama circle 863 909 4 Kawagoe circle 841 847 4 Kumagaya circle 916 942 4 Kawaguchi circle 859 944 4 Tokorozawa circle 923 895 4 Kasukabe circle 935 937 4 Sōka circle 931 918 4 Koshigaya circle 1003 997 4 Chiba circle 975 973 4 Funabashi circle 973 925 4 Kashiwa circle 897 1043 4 Yokohama circle 912 1019 4 Kawasaki circle 905 1088 4 Yokosuka circle 832 1073 4 Hiratsuka circle 787 1093 4 Odawara, Kanagawa circle 844 1074 4 Chigasaki circle 837 1008 4 Sagamihara circle 835 1043 4 Atsugi circle 856 1031 4 Yamato circle 587 453 4 Niigata circle 578 482 4 Nagaoka circle 548 500 4 Jōetsu circle 498 529 4 Toyama circle 470 537 4 Kanazawa circle 448 567 4 Fukui circle 655 982 4 Kōfu circle 546 531 4 Nagano circle 536 557 4 Matsumoto circle 469 950 4 Gifu circle 557 635 4 Shizuoka circle 524 651 4 Hamamatsu circle 721 1140 4 Numazu circle 679 1121 4 Fuji circle 502 1017 4 Nagoya circle 613 1132 4 Toyohashi circle 563 1080 4 Okazaki circle 479 983 4 Ichinomiya circle 517 999 4 Kasugai circle 559 1045 4 Toyota circle 410 1146 4 Tsu circle 438 1077 4 Yokkaich circle 330 937 4 Ōtsu circle 310 939 4 Kyoto circle 250 1028 4 Osaka circle 245 1061 4 Sakai circle 220 1093 4 Kishiwada circle 242 1003 4 Toyonaka circle 253 1009 4 Suita circle 276 985 4 Takatsuki circle 283 994 4 Hirakata circle 265 994 4 Ibaraki circle 272 1046 4 Yao circle 278 1008 4 Neyagawa circle 272 1032 4 Higashiōsaka circle 180 1029 4 Kobe circle 63 994 4 Himeji circle 228 1017 4 Amagasaki circle 134 1042 4 Akashi circle 213 1016 4 Nishinomiya circle 99 1010 4 Kakogawa circle 217 998 4 Takarazuka circle 319 1030 4 Nara circle 174 1157 4 Wakayama circle 348 599 4 Tottori circle 332 649 4 Okayama circle 321 657 4 Kurashiki circle 254 663 4 Hiroshima circle 261 674 4 Kure circle 302 660 4 Fukuyama circle 180 683 4 Shimonoseki circle 336 670 4 Takamatsu circle 269 699 4 Matsuyama circle 308 718 4 Kōchi circle 170 693 4 Kitakyūshū circle 148 706 4 Fukuoka circle 152 723 4 Kurume circle 117 756 4 Nagasaki circle 111 729 4 Sasebo circle 160 756 4 Kumamoto circle 208 732 4 Ōita circle 194 813 4 Miyazaki circle 148 829 4 Kagoshima </imagemap>

Lua error in Module:Nihongo at line 88: attempt to call field '_transl' (a nil value). is a defined class or category of Japanese cities. It is a local administrative division created by the national government.[1] All core cities have a population greater than 300,000.[2]

History[change]

The core cities were created because of the Local Autonomy Law of Japan. Each city does many of the things normally done by prefectures.[1]

List[change]

Core cities were recognized starting in 1996.[3] There are 40+ of these cities,[1] including

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Related pages[change]

Administrative divisions of Japan
National
Sub-national
Local

References[change]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Web-Japan.org, "Local self-government," p. 3; retrieved 2012-11-28.
  2. ↑ United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), "Country paper:Japan, Local Government Categories" Archived 2013-04-11 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-11-28.
  3. ↑ Jacobs, A.J. "Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s," Urban Studies Research, (2011); doi:10.1155/2011/692764; retrieved 2012-12-5.
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 Jacobs, Table 2; retrieved 2012-12-5.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Buhnik, Sophie. "From Shrinking Cities to Toshi no Shukushō: Identifying Patterns of Urban Shrinkage in the Osaka Metropolitan Area," Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2001), p. 135 [PDF 4 of 24]; retrieved 2012-12-2.
  6. ↑ "Core city with population of 380000. Resource recovery and enlightenment business of Kashiwa city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan, through establishing "recycling plaza" with nickname "Ribbon-Kan building" arousing citizen's sympathy toward waste reduction,"[permanent dead link] Journal of Solid & Liquid Wastes, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 38-43 (2006); retrieved 2012-12-2.
  7. ↑ "Kochi" at Triposo.com[permanent dead link]; excerpt, "... first core city on Shikoku"; retrieved 2012-12-5.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Inaba, Yushi. (2009). "Japan's New Local Industry Creation: Joint Entrepreneurship, p. 96.
  9. ↑ Hoshiko M. et al. "Assessing the validity of health impact assessment predictions regarding a Japanese city's transition to core city status: a monitoring review," Public Health 2012 Feb ; Vol. 126, No. 2, pp. 168-176; retrieved 2012-12-2.
  10. ↑ Jacobs, A.J. "Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s," Urban Studies Research, Vol. 2011 (2011), p. 8 [PDF 8 of 14]; retrieved 2012-12-5.
  11. ↑ "Naha starts as regional hub city in Okinawa," Ryukyu Shimpo, 2 April 2013; retrieved 2013-4-17.
  12. ↑ City of Toyama, "About Toyama" Archived 2013-04-20 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-12-2.

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