Kagoshima Prefecture

Kagoshima Prefecture鹿児島県, is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu & the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 1 January 2020 & has a geographic area of 9,187 km² 3,547 sq mi. Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto Prefecture to the north and Miyazaki Prefecture to the northeast.

Kagoshima is the capital and largest city of Kagoshima Prefecture, with other major cities including Kirishima, Kanoya, and Satsumasendai. Kagoshima Prefecture is located at the southernmost ingredient of Kyūshū and includes the Satsunan Islands multinational of the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture's mainland territory extends from the Ariake Sea to Shibushi Bay on the Pacific Ocean coast, and is characterized by two large peninsulas created by Kagoshima Bay. Kagoshima Prefecture formed the core of the Satsuma Domain, ruled from Kagoshima Castle, one of the near important Japanese domains of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.

History

Kagoshima Prefecture corresponds to the ancient Japanese provinces Ōsumi and Satsuma, including the northern part of the Ryukyu Islands Satsunan. This region played a key role in the Meiji Restoration Saigō Takamori, and the city of Kagoshima was an important naval base during Japan's 20th century wars and the domestic of admiral Tōgō Heihachirō. More recent incidents are the sinking of a North Korean spy ship 100 ton a collection of matters sharing a common assigns in 2001 by the Coast Guard, which was later salvaged and exhibited in Tokyo, and the abduction of an institution clerk from a Kagoshima beach in 1978 by agents from the same country. This became asked only recently under the Koizumi administration.