Sau da yawa, lokacin da muke magana game da wani birni, gari ko ƙauye a Japan, muna ƙara cewa yana cikin wannan ko waccan lardin. Bari mu fara da bayanin menene lardunan. Waɗannan ƙananan hukumomi ne waɗanda gwamnatin Meiji ta kafa a cikin 1871. Da farko, akwai kusan 300, amma an rage adadin a cikin shekarun baya zuwa adadi mai sauƙin sarrafawa ga gwamnatin tsakiya.
A halin yanzu, Japan ta kasu kashi-kashi cikin larduna 47, kowannensu yana da ikon zabar gwamnonin kansa ta hanyar zabukan cikin gida, wanda ke nuna cewa su ma suna da ikon yin doka.
A ƙasa da waɗannan layukan, zaku iya ganin sunayen waɗannan ƙananan hukumomin, waɗanda aka harhada su yankuna, waɗanda guda takwas ne: Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku da Kyushu da Okinawa.
Hokkaidō
Hokkaido
Tambaya:
Aomori
Iwate
Miyagi
Akita
Yamagata
Fukushima
Kanto:
Ibaraki
Tochigi
Gunma
Saitama
Chiba
Tokyo
Kanagawa
Chbu:
Niigata
Toyama
Ishikawa
Fukui
Yamanashi
Nagano
Gifu
Shizuoka
Aichi
Kinky:
Mie
Shiga
Kyoto
Osaka
Hygogo
Nara
Wakayama
Harshe:
Tottori
Shimane
Okayama
Hiroshima
Yamaguchi
shikenan:
Tokushima
Kagawa
Ehime
Kici
Kyūshū da Okinawa:
Fukuoka
Saga
Nagasaki
Kumamoto
Ita
Miyazaki
Kagoshima
Okinawa