prefecture
noun
pre·fec·ture
ˈprē-ˌfek-chər 
1
: the office or term of office of a prefect
2
: the official residence of a prefect
3
: the district governed by a prefect
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Windy Japan Tsunami Warning Update A tsunami wave measuring 1.3 meters was recorded at Kuji Port in Japan's Iwate prefecture, located in the northeast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
Last Monday, the Japanese Defense Ministry said the Shandong and its support ships had been exercising in the waters southeast of the island of Miyako Island in southern Okinawa prefecture, putting two Chinese carrier strike groups in the open Pacific for the first time.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 16 June 2025
Their guilt grows, as in the years between their childhood and Tabo’s suicide some four decades later, multiple dead bodies are discovered—always female, always wearing an article of orange clothing, and always in the same prefecture, where Tabo still lives with his mother.
—Katie Kitamura, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Crossing seven modern-day prefectures and the snowy crags of the Japanese Alps, this thoroughfare, the Nakasendō, connected the imperial capital of Kyoto with the cultural capital of Edo (now Tokyo).
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2025
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Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
Last Monday, the Japanese Defense Ministry said the Shandong and its support ships had been exercising in the waters southeast of the island of Miyako Island in southern Okinawa prefecture, putting two Chinese carrier strike groups in the open Pacific for the first time.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 16 June 2025
Their guilt grows, as in the years between their childhood and Tabo’s suicide some four decades later, multiple dead bodies are discovered—always female, always wearing an article of orange clothing, and always in the same prefecture, where Tabo still lives with his mother.
—Katie Kitamura, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Crossing seven modern-day prefectures and the snowy crags of the Japanese Alps, this thoroughfare, the Nakasendō, connected the imperial capital of Kyoto with the cultural capital of Edo (now Tokyo).
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2025
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“Prefecture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prefecture. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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prefecture
noun
pre·fec·ture
ˈprē-ˌfek-chər
1
: the office or term of office of a prefect
2
: the district governed by a prefect
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