How to Use prefecture in a Sentence

prefecture

noun
  • The prefecture did not name the ship.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 1 June 2026
  • The prefecture north of Tokyo is a venue for baseball and softball.
    — Stephen Wade and Mari Yamaguchi, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • The stadium is owned by the prefecture.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The small boat had likely been stolen and was not designed to carry so many people, the prefecture said.
    — Eve Brennan, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
  • There was only one school in the area, perhaps the entire prefecture using that melody.
    — Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Abe was shot and killed this summer while campaigning in the Nara prefecture.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Two-thirds of those occurred in the Akita and Iwate prefectures.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Kyushu The prefecture is known for its heavy tonkotsu ramen and produces an umami-rich sake to match.
    — Jenn Harrisstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The Paris police prefecture has yet to issue a statement on the ruling.
    — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Also in Japan lies the port city of Obama, in Fukui prefecture.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Roughly 20 million of the bags are scattered around the prefecture.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Takaichi was born and raised in the central Japanese prefecture of Nara.
    — NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The prefecture is known as Japan's rice country, home to the nation's largest rice harvest and its sake heartland.
    — Iona Brannon, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In neighboring Iwate prefecture, a woman in her 50s fell and cut her mouth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The Dodgers had scouted Ohtani since his first year in high school in a rugged prefecture in northern Japan.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • As for the rest of the Fukushima prefecture, life has started to resume, albeit slowly.
    — Tom O'Connor, Newsweek, 14 July 2017
  • Kono grew up in the Saitama prefecture of Japan, and his parents ran a seafood market and restaurant.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Most of this wagyu is sourced from Kagoshima prefecture, located at the southern tip of Kyushu.
    — Andrew Watman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Go Taxi is Japan’s go-to taxi app and is available in nearly every prefecture across Japan.
    — Michelle Gross, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The prefecture is in the southwestern part of Japan's main island of Honshu.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Among them were Roke and Hiro, from the east-central prefecture of Saitama.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
  • She was born in Nara prefecture to a father who worked for a car company and a mother who was a police officer.
    — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Abe lifted the measure in 39 of the country’s 47 prefectures.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2020
  • People queue up at a polling station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The deaths included a man in his 70s who was blown to the ground from his apartment in Osaka prefecture.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Two sisters from an elementary school of just six pupils on the small island of Nuwa in Ehime prefecture were among the dead.
    — NBC News, 8 July 2018
  • Rescue teams with search dogs had been dispatched to the mountainous area in Haixi prefecture on the Tibetan plateau.
    — ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • Casual bites in Kyushu In the south of Japan, eight prefectures make up the Kyushu region.
    — Tokyo Halfie, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Most of the attacks have been by smaller Asian black bears and have occurred in Akita prefecture, now a front line of the crisis.
    — Peter Guo, NBC news, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The bus was carrying 32 passengers, a statement from the prefecture of the Somme said.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019

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