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Shizuoka |
 Shizuoka Prefecture (静岡県, Shizuoka-ken) - A
prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū
island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.
Shizuoka Prefecture is an elongated region following the
coast of the Pacific Ocean at the Suruga Bay. In the west,
the prefecture extends deep into the Japan Alps, while
farther east it becomes a narrower coast bounded on the
north by Mount Fuji, until it comes to the Izu Peninsula, a
popular resort area pointing south into the Pacific.
Tokai earthquakes
Every 100–150 years, an earthquake of disastrous proportions
called the Tokai Earthquake occurs in the Shizuoka
Prefecture. The previous earthquake was in 1854.
 The prefecture was previously divided into Tōtōmi Province,
Suruga Province and Izu Province. The most noted history of
the prefecture is that it was once home to the first
Tokugawa Shogun.
The region was held by Tokugawa Ieyasu until he conquered
the lands of the Hōjō clan in the Kantō region and gave his
lands to the stewardship of Oda Nobunaga. After becoming
shogun Tokugawa took the land back for his family,
particularly putting the area around modern-day Shizuoka
city under direct shogunal supervision.
It once again became the residence of the Tokugawa family
after 1868, with the creation of Shizuoka han.
Twenty-three cities are located in Shizuoka Prefecture:
Atami
Fuji
Fujieda
Fujinomiya
Fukuroi
Gotenba
Hamamatsu
Itō
Iwata
Izu
Izunokuni
Kakegawa
Kikugawa
Kosai
Makinohara
Mishima
Numazu
Omaezaki
Shimada
Shimoda
Shizuoka (capital)
Susono
Yaizu
Information source: “Shizuoka Prefecture.” wikipedia.org. Article
date: 15 Feb. 2008. Retrieved: Wikipedia. 4 Mar. 2008 <Shizuoka Prefecture>. |
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