| The Okinawa prefecture was in fact under direct U.S. military administration from 1945 to 1972, when it was handed over to the Japanese. |
| These might look ordinary trees, but they are in fact a very special present from the governor of the Nara prefecture in Japan. |
| The prefecture will stop using workshops for industrial production, and settlers in the General Building of the General Zhang Aiping will be relocated. |
| One of his first tasks after buying a dilapidated farmhouse in the Chiba prefecture, about 60 miles east of Tokyo, was to build a huge wooden bathtub. |
| But first an application has to be made to the local prefecture with a mountain of paperwork involved. |
| To avoid the name calling that a woman would probably receive at a horse fair, he got permission from the prefecture of police to dress in men's clothing. |
