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This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo, to which a large amount of residents commute each day. |
Saitama Prefecture
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Aso group proposes new bill to improve sports conditions in Japan - Asahi Shimbun Asahi Shimbun--For example, a young girl died after getting sucked into a drain outlet at a public swimming pool in Fujimino, -Saitama Prefecture-, in the summer of 2006. This tragedy prompted the inspection of swimming pools nationwide, and drainage prob - Date : Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:09:12 GMT+00:00 |
Thieves hit shops in Hyogo, Saitama - The Japan Times The Japan Times--KYODO PHOTO The first theft came at around 2:30 am when a burglar alarm went off at a pawnshop in Kawagoe, -Saitama Prefecture-, police said. When officers arrived, they found that some 100 valuable items worth a total of ¥30 million had - Date : Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:59:23 GMT+00:00 |
Residents, municipal gov't of Fukushima town move to third shelter since ... - Mainichi Daily News Mainichi Daily News--They rode buses to a now defunct prefectural high school in Kazo, from Saitama Super Arena in Chuo Ward, -Saitama Prefecture-. The evacuees are expected to stay at the school for a long period. The refugees had first taken shelter clo - Date : Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:57:49 GMT+00:00 |
Daiichi Sankyo to launch Kitasato Daiichi Sankyo Vaccine company - istockAnalyst.com (press release) istockAnalyst.com (press release)--Details of the new company are as follows: headquarters located at Kitamoto, -Saitama Prefecture-; President of the company is Masahiro Okabe; Setsuo Arai will serve as executive vice president; Shigehisa Yamazaki is the - Date : Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:57:26 GMT+00:00 |
Higher radiation found in water outside Tokyo: report - Reuters Reuters--TOKYO (Reuters) - Radiation levels above safety norms for infants were found in the water purification system in Kawaguchi, -Saitama prefecture-, adjacent to Tokyo, as workers try to contain damage to a quake-hit nuclear power plant in northeaste - Date : Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:03:43 GMT+00:00 |
Gov't urges locals not to return to exclusion zone for now - istockAnalyst.com (press release) istockAnalyst.com (press release)--Around 1200 of the 6800 residents of Futaba, Fukushima -Prefecture-, which hosts the nuclear plant, and its municipal government have taken refuge at -Saitama- Super Arena in the city of -Saitama-, and on Wednesday they - Date : Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:10:30 GMT+00:00 |
Little Kid Tricked Out Of His PSP - Kotaku Australia Kotaku Australia--“My goal was to sell the PSP I swindled away,” Osanai told authorities in Omiya in -Saitama Prefecture-, which is outside Tokyo. On March 23 at around 2.15pm, Osanai approached a group of grade schoolers at a supermarket food court i - Date : Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:21:27 GMT+00:00 |
Radioactive iodine detected in tap water in Chiba, Saitama prefectures - International Business Times International Business Times--Saitama authorities have not taken the same step as iodine readings in its water fell below the regulated limits. (In Kawaguchi, -Saitama Prefecture-, the level of iodine dropped from 120 becquerels per liter Tuesday to 46 as - Date : Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:03:08 GMT+00:00 |
Tests on Japanese travellers' bags show dangerous levels of radiation - Evening Standard Evening Standard--Officials say the pair, from Nagano and -Saitama prefectures-, were given medical treatment and presented no risk to others. However, experts have so far been unable to explain why their radiation levels were so high as they are not beli - Date : Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:36:27 GMT+00:00 |
Disaster victims need to be 'matched' with 2nd hometown as rebuilding will ... - Mainichi Daily News Mainichi Daily News--People sit in a closed junior high school being used as a shelter following the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, in the Iwate Prefecture city of Kamaishi on March 17. (Mainichi ) A staff member from a nursing home in -Saitama Pre - Date : Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:37:10 GMT+00:00 |
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Saitama (capital city) | Wards: Chūō-ku * Iwatsuki-ku * Kita-ku * Midori-ku * Minami-ku * Minuma-ku * Nishi-ku * Ōmiya-ku * Sakura-ku * Urawa-ku | |
Cities | Ageo * Asaka * Chichibu * Fujimi * Fujimino * Fukaya * Gyōda * Hannō * Hanyū * Hasuda * Hatogaya * Hidaka * Higashi-Matsuyama * Honjō * Iruma * Kasukabe * Kawagoe * Kawaguchi * Kazo * Kitamoto * Koshigaya * Kōnosu * Kuki * Kumagaya * Misato * Niiza * Okegawa * Saitama (capital) * Sakado * Satte * Sayama * Shiki * Sōka * Toda * Tokorozawa * Tsurugashima * Wakō * Warabi * Yashio * Yoshikawa | |
Districts | Chichibu * Hiki * Iruma * Kita-Adachi * Kita-Katsushika * Kita-Saitama * Kodama * Minami-Saitama * Ōsato |
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Hokkaidō | Hokkaidō | |
Tōhoku | Akita * Aomori * Fukushima * Iwate * Miyagi * Yamagata | |
Kantō | Chiba * Gunma * Ibaraki * Kanagawa * Saitama * Tochigi * Tokyo | |
Chūbu | Aichi * Fukui * Gifu * Ishikawa * Nagano * Niigata * Shizuoka * Toyama * Yamanashi | |
Kansai | Hyōgo * Kyoto * Mie * Nara * Osaka * Shiga * Wakayama | |
Chūgoku | Hiroshima * Okayama * Shimane * Tottori * Yamaguchi | |
Shikoku | Ehime * Kagawa * Kōchi * Tokushima | |
Kyūshū | Kyūshū (Mainland): Fukuoka * Kagoshima * Kumamoto * Miyazaki * Nagasaki * Ōita * Saga Ryūkyū Islands: Okinawa |