•
Hyōgo, another geographically large prefecture, was divided into ten subprefectures, but these are now known as . •
Chiba was divided into five subprefectures until 2003, when the branch offices were renamed . •
Nagasaki had three subprefectures that provide services to the outlying islands of
Tsushima,
Iki and
Gotō. They were replaced by Regional Offices and then by District Offices. •
Okinawa had two subprefectures,
Miyako and
Yaeyama, located on the islands of
Miyakojima and
Ishigaki respectively. These offices provided prefectural government services to the isolated archipelagos surrounding both islands. They were abolished in March 2009 and duties taken over by the governments of
Miyakojima City,
Miyako District,
Ishigaki City, and
Yaeyama District. In addition, in 1907 Japan formed
Karafuto Prefecture to govern the island of
Sakhalin. Karafuto was divided into four subprefectures: Toyohara (in present-day
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Maoka (in present-day
Kholmsk), Esutoru (in present-day
Uglegorsk) and Shikuka (in present-day
Makarov). A number of islands gained by Japan in the
Treaty of Versailles were placed under the direction of a from 1922 to 1945. This was divided into six subprefectures, on the islands of
Saipan,
Yap,
Palau,
Truk,
Pohnpei and
Jaluit. In November 1943, the six subprefectures were merged into "eastern", "western" and "northern" subprefectures, which remained in place until the
Surrender of Japan in 1945.
Taiwan Taiwan during Japanese rule initially had its prefectures – , later termed and – subdivided into ''''. Most of the later subprefectures were named . Some English texts translate "sub-prefecture" differently, using it instead for the '
of Taiwan, which were remote prefectures that were much less populated, once considered "sub-", or "lesser", prefectures, i.e., Hōko (the Pescadores), Karenkō (Hualien) and Taitō (Taitung). The offshore Hōko was home to the last two remaining subprefectures named ': and . ==See also==