Miyazaki Prefecture

Miyazaki Prefecture 宮崎県
Prefecture
Japanese transcription(s)
• Japanese	宮崎県
• Rōmaji	Miyazaki-ken
Flag Symbol
Country	Japan
Region	Kyushu
Island	Kyushu
Capital	Miyazaki (city)
Subdivisions	Districts: 6, Municipalities: 26
Government
• Governor	Shunji Kōno
Area
• Total	7,735.32 km2 (2,986.62 sq mi)
Area rank	14th
Population  (June 1, 2019)
• Total	1,073,054
• Rank	36th
• Density	140/km2 (360/sq mi)
ISO 3166 code	JP-45
Website	www.pref.miyazaki.lg.jp
Symbols Bird Ijima copper pheasant (Phasianus soemmerringii ijimae) Flower Hamayu (Crinum asiaticum var. japonicum) Tree Phoenix palm (Phoenix canariensis)

Miyazaki Prefecture (宮崎県, Miyazaki-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū.^[1] Miyazaki Prefecture has a population of 1,073,054 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 7,735 km² (2,986 sq mi). Miyazaki Prefecture borders Ōita Prefecture to the north, Kumamoto Prefecture to the northwest, and Kagoshima Prefecture to the southwest.

Miyazaki is the capital and largest city of Miyazaki Prefecture, with other major cities including Miyakonojō, Nobeoka, and Hyūga. Miyazaki Prefecture is located in southeastern Kyūshū on Japan's Pacific coast, with its coastline extending from Nobeoka near the entrance to the Bungo Channel to Shibushi Bay in Kushima.

History[]

Historically, after the Meiji Restoration, Hyūga Province was renamed Miyazaki Prefecture.^[2]

In Japan, Miyazaki Prefecture was first created in 1873 when was merged with parts of . The first Miyazaki existed only until 1876 when it was merged (back) into Kagoshima Prefecture. Under public pressure and demands in the prefectural assembly of Kagoshima, Miyazaki became finally independent from Kagoshima in 1883.^[3]

Geography[]

Miyazaki Prefecture is on the eastern coast of the island of Kyushu, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the south and east, Ōita Prefecture to the north, and Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures to the west. It is one of only two locations on Earth where the fungus Chorioactis geaster is found.^[4] Miyazaki is the home of the hyuganatsu fruit.

As of 31 March 2019, 12% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks, namely the Kirishima-Kinkōwan National Park; Kyūshū Chūō Sanchi, Nichinan Kaigan, Nippō Kaigan, and Sobo-Katamuki Quasi-National Parks; and Mochio-Sekinoo, Osuzu, Saitobaru-Sugiyasukyō, Sobo Katamuki, Wanitsuka, and Yatake Kōgen Prefectural Natural Parks.^[5][6]

Cities[]

Nine cities are in Miyazaki Prefecture:

Name		Area (km2)	Population	Map
Rōmaji	Kanji
Ebino	えびの市	282.93	18,337
Hyūga	日向市	336.94	60,037
Kobayashi	小林市	562.95	44,154
Kushima	串間市	295.16	17,457
Miyakonojō	都城市	653.36	161,137
Miyazaki (capital)	宮崎市	643.67	398,215
Nichinan	日南市	536.11	51,241
Nobeoka	延岡市	868.02	119,521
Saito	西都市	438.79	29,262

Districts[]

These are the towns and villages of each district:

Name		Area (km2)	Population	District	Type	Map
Rōmaji	Kanji
Aya	綾町	95.19	7,023	Higashimorokata District	Town
Gokase	五ヶ瀬町	171.73	3,537	Nishiusuki District	Town
Hinokage	日之影町	277.67	3,656	Nishiusuki District	Town
Kadogawa	門川町	120.52	17,526	Higashiusuki District	Town
Kawaminami	川南町	90.12	15,372	Koyu District	Town
Kijō	木城町	145.96	5,008	Koyu District	Town
Kunitomi	国富町	130.63	18,717	Higashimorokata District	Town
Mimata	三股町	110.02	25,379	Kitamorokata District	Town
Misato	美郷町	448.84	4,823	Higashiusuki District	Town
Morotsuka	諸塚村	187.56	1,532	Higashiusuki District	Village
Nishimera	西米良村	271.51	1,013	Koyu District	Village
Shiiba	椎葉村	537.29	2,579	Higashiusuki District	Village
Shintomi	新富町	61.53	16,663	Koyu District	Town
Takachiho	高千穂町	237.54	11,959	Nishiusuki District	Town
Takaharu	高原町	85.39	8,709	Nishimorokata District	Town
Takanabe	高鍋町	43.8	20,185	Koyu District	Town
Tsuno	都農町	102.11	10,028	Koyu District	Town

Mergers[]

Sports[]

The sports teams listed below are based in Miyazaki.

Football (soccer)[]

• Honda Lock S.C. (Miyazaki City)
• Tegevajaro Miyazaki (Miyazaki City)

Basketball (Bj League)[]

• Miyazaki Shining Suns (Miyazaki City)

Press Media[]

Newspaper[]

• Miyazaki Daily Newspaper
• Evening Daily (Different from the Daily Sports evening edition published in Kanto)
• The Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Nishi Nihon Shimbun and Minami Nihon Shimbun also have branch offices and communication departments in the prefecture.

The Miyazaki Nichi-Nichi Shimbun is a local newspaper covering the entire area of Miyazaki Prefecture.

The Yomiuri / Asahi / Daily newspapers handle the Miyazaki edition, and the Nishi-Nippon Shimbun handles articles in the prefecture within Minami Kyushu Wide (two prefectures in Miyazaki and Kagoshima). The Minami Nihon Shimbun is a local newspaper in Kagoshima Prefecture, but it is also sold in the western part of the prefecture (prefectures). The Nishi Nihon Shimbun ended its publication in both Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures on March 31, 2018 (the same applies to West Japan Sports).

Telecast[]

TV station Status[]

In this prefecture, even after many broadcasting stations (Heisei New Station) opened in other prefectures and the number of channels increased, private broadcasting as the target area of broadcasting is the Fuji TV series main TV Miyazaki (UMK) and TBS series There are only two stations of Miyazaki Broadcasting (MRT). In the 1990s, a third commercial TV station was scheduled to be created, but it has been abandoned, and there are no plans or plans for the opening of a new station (see details in the separate section).

There are other prefectures (Fukui Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture) where there are only two commercial broadcasters, but these prefectures are areas where broadcast stations in the neighboring prefectures can watch by means of public hearing facilities, cable TV (CATV) or direct reception outside the area. Is the majority. On the other hand, in this prefecture, as will be described later, the penetration rate of cable TV is low for the number of private broadcasters, and the reception outside the area is also limited to Kagoshima Prefecture in parts of Ebino City, Miyakonojo City, Kushima City, Mimata Town There is a relative disparity in information in Japan because the broadcast area is limited to the broadcast area where Kumamoto Prefecture is the broadcast area in some areas such as Gokase-cho. It is said that.

Until the opening of NHK Miyazaki Broadcasting Station in July 1960, the Kagoshima Station was received in Miyazaki City, and before the Kagoshima Station was opened, the Hiroshima Station was received using ionospheric reflection, as well as Gokase Town and Shiiba Village. Then Kumamoto station was watched. See Gokase Relay Station for the situation in Gokase Town.

On the other hand, as described above, there are only two channels that can be directly viewed in Miyazaki Prefecture as described above (this is not the case if you can watch stations in neighboring prefectures). There are also locations that receive broadcasts from neighboring prefectures (mainly Kagoshima and Kumamoto Prefectures) that perform full networks of the ANN (TV Asahi) series and NNS / NNN (Nippon TV) series, which are sub-affiliated sub-series. (Refer to the separate section for details.)

Proposed TV Station[]

In 1990, the third private broadcasting station was assigned (Miyazaki 21ch), and about 400 licenses were filed. Among them, NTV had a plan to set up a broadcasting station with Okinawa (see Southwest Broadcasting for Okinawa), but it was necessary to inject funds into satellite broadcasting due to the effects of the recession after the collapse of the bubble economy and satellite broadcasting.

By April 1993, “The program will be provided free of charge, but it will not support the opening of the station and will not be given any compensation for the network” (meaning that you have to search for sponsors yourself), and will advance to Miyazaki as a key station. Abandoned. For this reason, there was a plan to use TV Asahi as a key station later, but the TV Asahi side showed disappointment, thus the idea of setting up the third station was on the reef and on September 6, 2000. The radio wave assignment has been canceled. The land reserved for the new Miyazaki station later became a parking lot.

Former Governor Hideo Higashikokubaru also posted an extension of the TV station in the manifesto, but this was not necessarily a terrestrial commercial release, but also an image of Internet TV. On the other hand, the Institute for Manifest Research at Waseda University has judged this manifest as a C evaluation (minimum of the three stages of A, B, and C), which is “substantially delayed or policy change＂.

Miyazaki Method[]

The Miyazaki system for TV transmitters means that the local government that is the beneficiary bears a part of the installation cost of the relay station.

As a private broadcasting station, the coverage rate in the prefecture is almost 100% just by setting up a plan station, so the installation of a relay station in a mountainous area was not expected to be cost-effective. This was the direction of installation due to the fact that the local government in the Irago district (current Misato-cho, Togo-cho, Hyuga-shi, Morozuka-mura, Shiiba-mura) applied to the broadcasting station for a part of the installation cost in 1973. . As a result, relay stations were set up in Irago, Hinata Saigo, Togo (1973), Kita Morozuka, Minami Morozuka, Shiiba (1974). Since then, this method has basically been adopted for relay stations installed in Miyazaki Prefecture.

Radio[]

• NHK Miyazaki Broadcasting Station (AM / FM)
• Miyazaki Broadcasting (MRT Radio) (JRN / NRN series)
• FM Miyazaki (JOY FM) (JFN affiliate, TV Miyazaki affiliate)
• Miyazaki Sunshine FM (community broadcast)-Miyazaki City resends music bird in some time zone
• City FM Miyakonojo (Community Broadcast)-Miyakonojo City, resend J-WAVE at certain times
• FM beoka (community broadcast)-Nobeoka
• FM Hyuga (Community Broadcasting)-Hyuga City / Kadokawa Town, operated by Cable Media Waiwai, re-sends music birds at some times

In Miyazaki City, there was a community FM station, Miyazaki City FM (City FM77), which was closed on October 31, 2005.

Transportation[]

Rail[]

• JR Kyushu
  • Nippō Main Line, Miyazaki Kūkō Line, Nichinan Line, Kitto Line, Hisatsu Line

Bus[]

• Miyazaki Kōtsu

Airport[]

• Miyazaki Airport

See also[]

• History of Miyazaki Prefecture
• Miyazaki Ocean Dome

Notes[]

References[]

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Miyazaki prefecture.

• Official Miyazaki Prefecture website
• Official Miyazaki Prefecture website (in Japanese)
• Miyazaki and Vicinity Information from the JNTO

Video Footage[]

The following travel- and tourism-related videos were shot and provided by video artist egawauemon.

• General video footage
• Scenery-related video footage
• Culture-related video footage
• Leisure-related video footage
• Food-related video footage
• Golf-related video footage

Coordinates: 32°1′N 131°21′E / 32.017°N 131.350°E / 32.017; 131.350