open-data-jp-prefectures
v1.0.1
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List of Japanese prefectures in an accessible format
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List of Japanese Prefectures
The list of prefectures is manually generated from these pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:JP http://www.statoids.com/ujp.html
The latest census data (2015) can be found here, it's not included in the data https://www.e-stat.go.jp/en/stat-search/files?page=1&toukei=00200521&tstat=000001080615&result_page=1&second=1
Usage
Just grab the file prefectures.json
it has a list of objects with the structure
{
"iso": "01",
"prefecture_kanji": "北海道",
"prefecture_kana": "ほっかいどう",
"prefecture_romaji": "Hokkaido"
}
The prefecture_name
in romaji will include one of the possible denomination Ken
, To
, Fu
.
Related links
More open data repositories.
You can find a GeoJSON file of Japanese prefectures on open-data-jp-prefectures-geojson as well as a lower resolutions prefectures on dataofjapan.