Japan has 47 prefectures, administrative divisions ranking immediately below the national government. They were created following the Meiji restoration of 1868, often with borders matching the ...

Japan’s consumption of alcoholic ... Aomori at 94.1 liters, Kōchi at 91.9 liters, and Akita at 91.1 liters. Meanwhile, the prefecture with the lowest average consumption was Shiga, at 55.4 ...