How to Use prefecture in a Sentence

prefecture

noun

• Also in Japan lies the port city of Obama, in Fukui prefecture.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
• Casual bites in Kyushu In the south of Japan, eight prefectures make up the Kyushu region.
  — Tokyo Halfie, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2023
• The quake struck at around 11:36 p.m. local time and was centered off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, the agency said.
  — Peter Landers, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• The small boat had likely been stolen and was not designed to carry so many people, the prefecture said.
  — Eve Brennan, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
• Abe lifted the measure in 39 of the country’s 47 prefectures.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2020
• Kono grew up in the Saitama prefecture of Japan, and his parents ran a seafood market and restaurant.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2022
• Among them were Roke and Hiro, from the east-central prefecture of Saitama.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
• The Paris police prefecture has yet to issue a statement on the ruling.
  — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
• As the dust settles on the devastation in the north of the prefecture, the next step for this part of Japan is to look forward, and tourism plays a vital part in this.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Central Japan Railway shouldered 59% of the cost and the other 41% was footed by the prefecture.
  — Takehiko Kambayashi, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2022
• Abe was shot and killed this summer while campaigning in the Nara prefecture.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2022
• The city of Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast suffered some of the worst damage from the magnitude 7.6 quake.
  — Miho Inada, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• The police prefecture tweeted that members of a special brigade went to the scene after the heist, which occurred close to 3 p.m.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 5 May 2022
• There was only one school in the area, perhaps the entire prefecture using that melody.
  — Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• The Japanese plum juice is sourced from the Wakayama prefecture and the spring water from the Hyogo mountains.
  — Bon Appétit, 13 Aug. 2021
• In neighboring Iwate prefecture, a woman in her 50s fell and cut her mouth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• Dozens of homes may have been buried in Atami, a town known for hot springs, said Shizuoka prefecture spokesman Takamichi Sugiyama.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
• Takazawa, 56, grew up in a small town in Gunma prefecture, 50 miles northwest of Tokyo.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Cracks on the ground Monday in Wajima in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture.
  — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2024
• Yoshihide Suga grew up in Akinomiya, a village that is now part of the city of Yuzawa in Akita prefecture.
  — Miho Inada and Peter Landers, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• As a result of the new state of emergency in Tokyo, no spectators will be allowed to watch the Olympics at venues in the prefecture in person.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 14 July 2021
• New Taipei will be shown live in movie theaters in all 47 prefectures across Japan, followed by an archived showing on June 4.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 30 May 2023
• The Olympic torch is set to arrive in northern Miyagi prefecture in six weeks, heralding the start of the Games four months later, on July 24.
  — Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• The Tank Engine is up and running to take visitors on a trip around Shizuoka prefecture in Japan.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2020
• Born in 1955 in the Aichi prefecture of Japan, Toriyama was interested in drawing from a young age.
  — EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
• An elderly woman in Kanagawa prefecture is the only person in Japan to have died of the virus.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 18 Feb. 2020
• By the time Muhammad circled the track and made her handoff to Mu, the other seven teams were in a different prefecture.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2021
• It is located in Aichi prefecture, less than an hour from Kyoto by train.
  — Xiaofei Xu, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
• Emergency crews rescued 53 people and recovered the bodies of the dead, the maritime prefecture said.
  — Emmanuel Miculita and Chris Liakos, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
• The starfish were collected from shrimp and crab cages used by fishers in northern Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture and Shizuoka prefectures in the central part of the country.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024