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Shizuoka Prefecture

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Template:Nihongo is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shizuoka-ken" in Template:Google books; "Chūbu" in Template:Google books</ref> Template:As of Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,555,818 and has a geographic area of Template:Convert. Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northeast, Nagano Prefecture to the north, and Aichi Prefecture to the west.

Shizuoka is the capital and Hamamatsu is the largest city in Shizuoka Prefecture, with other major cities including Fuji, Numazu, and Iwata.<ref>Nussbaum, "Shizuoka" at Template:Google books.</ref> Shizuoka Prefecture is located on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast and features Suruga Bay formed by the Izu Peninsula, and Lake Hamana which is considered to be one of Japan's largest lakes. Mount Fuji, the tallest volcano in Japan and cultural icon of the country, is partially located in Shizuoka Prefecture on the border with Yamanashi Prefecture. Shizuoka Prefecture has a significant motoring heritage as the founding location of Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha, and is home to the Fuji International Speedway.

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View of Mt. Fuji from Numazu

History

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Template:See also Shizuoka Prefecture was established from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.<ref>Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at Template:Google books.</ref>

The area was the home of the first Tokugawa shōgun.Template:Citation needed Tokugawa Ieyasu held the region until he conquered the lands of the Hōjō clan in the Kantō region and placed land under the stewardship of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After becoming shōgun, Tokugawa took the land back for his family and put the area around modern-day Shizuoka City under the direct supervision of the shogunate. With the creation of the Shizuoka han from the Sunpu Domain in 1868, it once again became the residence of the Tokugawa family.

Geography

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Shizuoka Prefecture is an elongated region following the coast of the Pacific Ocean at the Suruga Bay. In the west, the prefecture extends deep into the Japan Alps. In the east, it becomes a narrower coast bounded in the north by Mount Fuji, until it comes to the Izu Peninsula, a popular resort area pointing south into the Pacific.Template:Citation needed

Template:As of 11% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as natural parks, namely the Fuji-Hakone-Izu and Minami Alps National Parks; Tenryū-Okumikawa Quasi-National Park; and four Prefectural Natural Parks.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Climate

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In Shizuoka prefecture, the temperature, over the course of the year, typically varies from 1.1 °C (34 °F) to 30.5 °C (87 °F) and is rarely below -2.2 °C (28 °F) or above 33.8 °C (93 °F.) The summers in Shizuoka are warm, oppressive, and mostly cloudy; the winters are very cold, windy, and mostly clear.<ref>weatherspark, Shizuoka prefecture.</ref>

Disaster

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On 15 March 2011, Shizuoka Prefecture was hit with a magnitude 6.2 earthquake approximately Template:Convert NNE of Shizuoka City. It is said, that throughout history, Shizuoka area has experienced a large earthquake every 100 to 150 years.

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Demographics

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Shizuoka prefecture population pyramid in 2020

3,635,220 people live in Shizuoka Prefecture, according to the 2020 census.<ref>Shizuoka prefecture official statistics（令和2年国勢調査 静岡県の人口（速報値））</ref>

Municipalities

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Template:See also Since 2010, Shizuoka has consisted of 35 municipalities: 23 cities and 12 towns.

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Mergers

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Template:Main After the introduction of modern municipalities in 1889, Shizuoka consisted of 337 municipalities: 1 (by definition: district-independent) city and 23 districts with 31 towns and 305 villages. The Great Shōwa mergers of the 1950s reduced the total from 281 to 97 between 1953 and 1960, including 18 cities by then. The Great Heisei mergers of the 2000s combined the 74 remaining municipalities in the year 2000 into the current 35 by 2010.

List of governors of Shizuoka (since 1947)

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# Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Political Party
1 Takeji Kobayashi (小林武治)
(1899–1988) 		23 April 1947 22 April 1951 Independent
2 Toshio Saito (斎藤寿夫)
(1908–1999) 		1 May 1951 8 January 1967 Liberal Party (1951–1959)
Liberal Democratic Party (1959–1967)
3 Yutaro Takeyama (竹山祐太郎)
(1901–1982) 		31 January 1967 24 June 1974 LDP
4 Keizaburo Yamamoto (山本敬三郎)
(1913–2006) 		10 June 1974 6 July 1986 LDP
5 Shigeyoshi Saito (斉藤滋与史)
(1918–2018) 		7 July 1986 23 June 1993 LDP
6 Yoshinobu Ishikawa (石川嘉延)
(born in 1940) 		3 August 1993 17 June 2009 Independent
7 Heita Kawakatsu (川勝平太)
(born in 1948) 		7 July 2009 9 May 2024 Independent
8 Yasutomo Suzuki (鈴木康友)
(born in 1957) 		28 May 2024 Incumbent Independent

Industry

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Home to a shogun, cherry shrimp, and Japan's green tea heartland. Situated along Suruga Bay between Tokyo and Nagoya on the historic Tokaido route, the Pacific coast city of Shizuoka is famed for supplying most of Japan's tea and maguro tuna.

Motorcycles

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Shizuoka-based companies are world leaders in several major industrial sectors. Honda, Yamaha, and Suzuki all have their roots in Shizuoka prefecture and are still manufacturing here. Thanks to this, Shizuoka prefecture accounts for 28% of Japanese motorcycle exports.<ref name="Shizuoka_Pref_official_website">Shizuoka Prefecture official website, Industry in Shizuoka.</ref>

Musical instruments

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Yamaha and Kawai are both global piano brands. Yamaha has the largest share in the global piano market. Kawai has the second largest share. They both got their start in Shizuoka prefecture in the early twentieth century.<ref name="Shizuoka_Pref_official_website" /><ref name="Kyoto_Univ_of_Art">(In Japanese) Kyoto University of Arts, Musical instruments industry in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture.</ref>

Yamaha and Roland are major brand for electronic musical instruments. In the electronic piano world market, Yamaha has the world's largest share. Roland and Kawai have the second and third place share. Roland and Yamaha also manufacture high-quality synthesizers and drum machines for professional musicians.

In addition, various instruments such as wind instruments and guitars are manufactured in this prefecture. There are about 200 companies that manufacture musical instruments, in this prefecture.

Most of these musical instruments are especially produced in Hamamatsu City.<ref name="Kyoto_Univ_of_Art" />

Transportation

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Rail

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Tōkaidō Shinkansen
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Minobu Line
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Izuhakone Railway
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Gakunan Railway
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Ōigawa Railway

Roads

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Expressways

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Toll roads

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  • Fujinomiya Road
  • Nishi-Fuji Road
  • Shizuoka East-West Road
  • Shizuoka South-North Road
  • West Fuji Road (not a toll road anymore as of 2012)

National highways

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Airports

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Shizuoka Airport

Ports

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  • Shimizu Port
  • Atami Port and Shimoda Port – Mainly ferry route to Izu Island
  • Numazu Port

Education

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Universities

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National universities

Public universities

Private universities

Senior high schools

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Sports

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Shimizu S-Pulse playing at the IAI Stadium Nihondaira in Shimizu-ku

The sports teams listed below are based in Shizuoka.

Basketball

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Motorsport

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Rugby

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Football

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Volleyball

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Tourism

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Museums

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Theme parks

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Festivals and events

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A kite festival in Hamamatsu, May 2013
  • Daidogei World Cup in central Shizuoka City, held in November
  • Enshu Daimyo Festival in Iwata, held in April
  • Mishima Festival, held in August
  • Numazu Festival, held in July
  • Shimizu Port Festival, held on 5 to 7 August
  • Shimoda Black Ship Festival, held in May
  • Shizuoka Festival, held in April

Notable people

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Motoo Kimura (木村 資生, 1924–1994), biologist and theoretical population geneticist, died in Shizuoka Prefecture

Notes

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References

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