How to Use prefecture in a Sentence

prefecture

noun
Definition of prefecturenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Born in 1955 in the Aichi prefecture of Japan, Toriyama was interested in drawing from a young age.
    — EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Back in Tokushima prefecture, Nobuo heard the news of Pearl Harbor and never dreamed his brother was involved.
    — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Sixteen homes have been destroyed, according to the prefecture of Gironde.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Fans have already been banned from lining the route of the Olympic marathon and race walk events, the location of which was moved hundreds of miles away from Tokyo to Hokkaido prefecture.
    — Alex Scott, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2021
  • It has been joined by the northern prefecture of Hokkaido, which will hold soccer games without fans at the Sapporo Dome.
    — Stephen Wade, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
  • The warning was issued for the city of Aso and two nearby towns in Kumamoto prefecture, which is in the north-central region of the southern island of Kyushu.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The prefecture is home to half of U.S. military personnel in Japan, while making up less than 1 percent of Japan’s land mass.
    — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The soft-spoken 57-year-old homeless man from Chiba prefecture, born the year Tokyo last hosted the Summer Games, was here long before the torch arrived.
    — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Schools in the Mie prefecture allow students to wear Uniqlo as a type of informal uniform.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2022
  • All of Japan’s 47 prefectures except Tokyo saw declines.
    — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The public prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, a prefecture in the western suburbs of Paris, has set a trial date for June 14.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024

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