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"The government of Osaka consists of 43 municipalities"? No, Osaka itself consists of them. Besides, prefectural governments are governments of prefectures, municipal governments are governments of municipalities, they form a hierarchy in a unitary system, but not a single wikihodgepodge.... |
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{{Nihongo|'''Special wards'''|特別区|tokubetsu-ku}} are a special form of [[Municipalities of Japan|municipalities]] in [[Japan]] under the 1947 [[Local Autonomy Act|Local Autonomy Law]]. They are city-level wards: primary subdivisions of a prefecture with municipal autonomy largely comparable to other forms of municipalities.
Although the autonomy law today allows for special wards to be established in other prefectures, to date, they only exist in
In Japanese, they are collectively also known as {{Nihongo|"Wards area of Tokyo Metropolis"|東京都区部|Tōkyō-to kubu}}, {{Nihongo|"former Tokyo City"|旧東京市|kyū-Tōkyō-shi}}, or less formally the {{Nihongo|''23 wards''|23区|nijūsan-ku}} or just {{Nihongo|Tokyo|東京|Tōkyō}} if the context makes obvious that this does not refer to the whole prefecture. Today, all wards refer to themselves as a ''city'' in English, but the Japanese designation of {{Nihongo|special ward||tokubetsu-ku}} remains unchanged. They are a group of 23 municipalities; there is no associated single government body separate from the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Government]] which governs all 62 municipalities of Tokyo, not only the special wards.
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