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Cities of Japan

Cities of Japan (without Hokkaido and Okinawa)

A city (, shi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as towns (, machi) and villages (, mura), with the difference that they are not a component of districts (, gun). Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947.[1][2]

  1. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, e-gov database of legal texts: Chihōjichihō Archived 2005-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Ministry of Justice, Japanese Law Translation Database System: Local Autonomy Act

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