About two-thirds of the money prefectures raise in taxes goes to the central government.
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Meanwhile, many people in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures are still struggling with no lifelines at all.
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Many wonder how a man from Iwate, one of the poorest prefectures, became so rich.
It was centered on Aomori and Iwate prefectures on the northeast end of Honshu, Japan's main island.
In their place, centers in prefectures to the west were producing more items to make up the difference.
Masayoshi Son, a wireless tycoon, plans to build huge solar-power stations and a new grid to connect Japanese prefectures.
In those prefectures, power, water, gas and telephones are all out of service.
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Elevated levels of radioactive iodine have also been found in neighboring prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma, Niigata, Chiba and Saitama.
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Too many municipal administrations exist, with shaky tax bases, and indeed prefectures too.
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America, which buys one-sixth of Japanese farm exports, has put products from Fukushima and three other prefectures on a watch list.
Other prefectures such as Niigata also think of merging with their capitals.
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Localities including Tokyo and nearby Saitama and Ibaraki prefectures were reporting elevated levels of radiation Tuesday morning, though too low to cause injury.
The European Union has named a dozen prefectures that need radiation tests, yet traders in these places report a lack of testing equipment.
It is bottom of the 47 prefectures in the number of nursing-home beds and has only a fraction of the home-care assistance centers found elsewhere.
The embassy in Tokyo and the Chinese consulate in Niigata are sending buses to Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures to pick up Chinese nationals, according to the Embassy.
The 60-year-old made the offending remarks to regional governors at the weekend during his first tour of the tsunami-hit prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi since taking up his new role.
Moreover, prefectures outside Tokyo can't pull tax stunts like Ishihara--big companies that have to be in the capital at almost any cost could abandon other regions if taxes get too high.
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The Japanese media have drawn attention to a quake of magnitude 6.6 on the far side of the country, between Nagano and Niigata prefectures, and to a quake of magnitude 6.1 in Shizuoka prefecture, both within days of the main quake.
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