Special cities of Japan

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Special cities (特例市, Tokureishi), also known as Special Case cities, is a defined class or category of Japanese cities. It is a local administrative division created by the national government.[1] All special cities have a population greater than 200,000.

History

The special or special case cities were created because of the Local Autonomy Law of Japan.[2] Each city does many of the things normally done by prefectures.[1]

List

Special cities were recognized starting in 2000.[3] There are 40+ of these cities, including

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References

  1. 1 2 Web-Japan.org, "Local self-government," p. 3; retrieved 2012-11-28.
  2. ↑ The special cities are not the same as the special wards of Tokyo.
  3. ↑ Jacobs, A.J. "Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s," Archived 2012-03-21 at the Wayback Machine Urban Studies Research, (2011); doi:10.1155/2011/692764; retrieved 2012-12-18.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Jacobs, Table 3 Archived 2015-07-22 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-12-18.

Other websites

  • "Large City System of Japan" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-17.; graphic shows wards compared with other Japanese city types at p. 1 [PDF 7 of 40]


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