Cities Of Japan
A city (市, shi?) is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as towns (町, machi?) and villages (村, mura?), with the difference that they are not a component of districts (郡, gun?). Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947.
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