Quotes About Prefecture

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

I grew up in Matsue, in Shimane prefecture, which is one of the smallest cities in Japan.

It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal.