Distrik (Jepang): Perbedaan antara revisi

As of today, towns and villages also belong directly to prefectures; the districts no longer possess any administrations or assemblies since the 1920s, and therefore also no administrative authority – although there was a brief de facto reactivation of the districts during the Pacific War in the form of prefectural branch offices (called ''chihō jimusho'', 地方事務所, "local offices/bureaus") which generally had one district in their jurisdiction. However, for geographical and statistical purposes, districts continue to be used and are updated for municipal mergers or status changes: if a town or village (countrywide: >15,000 in 1889, <1,000 today) is merged into or promoted to a [by definition: district-independent] city (countrywide: 39 in 1889, 791 in 2017)<ref>[[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications|MIC]]: [http://www.soumu.go.jp/gapei/gapei2.html Change of the number of municipalities and characteristics of the Great Meiji and Shōwa mergers] {{ja}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mayors.or.jp/ ''Zenkoku shichōkai''] ("Japan Association of City Mayors" [special ward mayors are also members, but not part of the name]; title bar contains current/recent number of cities and special wards)</ref>, the territory is no longer counted as part of the district. In this way, many districts have become extinct, and many of those that still exist contain only a handful of or often only one remaining municipality as many of today's towns and villages are also much larger than in the Meiji era. The districts are used primarily in the [[Japanese addressing system]] and to identify the relevant geographical areas and collections of nearby towns and villages.

 

Because district names had been unique within a single [[provinces of Japan|province]] and as of 2008 [[prefectures of Japan|prefecture]] boundaries are roughly aligned to provincial boundaries, most district names are unique within their prefectures.