{"id":6954,"date":"2010-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.comnews\/kumamoto-city-merger-results-in-new-metropolis-with-720000-people\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"kumamoto-city-merger-results-in-new-metropolis-with-720000-people","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kumamoto-city-merger-results-in-new-metropolis-with-720000-people\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Kumamoto City Merger Results in New Metropolis with 720,000 People <!--:--><!--:ja-->Kumamoto City Merger Results in New Metropolis with 720,000 People <!--:--><!--:ko-->Kumamoto City Merger Results in New Metropolis with 720,000 People <!--:--><!--:zh-->Kumamoto City Merger Results in New Metropolis with 720,000 People <!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The merger of Kumamoto City with Ueki-machi and Jonan-machi took effect on the 23rd, creating a new Kumamoto City with a population of 728,000 people as of the 2005 census. That population gives it the qualifications to be classified as a \u201cdesignated government ordinance city\u201d, which means that it can have governmental authority on a level with prefectures. That is expected to be accomplished by April 2012 after negotiations with the national government.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ja--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The merger of Kumamoto City with Ueki-machi and Jonan-machi took effect on the 23rd, creating a new Kumamoto City with a population of 728,000 people as of the 2005 census. That population gives it the qualifications to be classified as a \u201cdesignated government ordinance city\u201d, which means that it can have governmental authority on a level with prefectures. That is expected to be accomplished by April 2012 after negotiations with the national government.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ko--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The merger of Kumamoto City with Ueki-machi and Jonan-machi took effect on the 23rd, creating a new Kumamoto City with a population of 728,000 people as of the 2005 census. That population gives it the qualifications to be classified as a \u201cdesignated government ordinance city\u201d, which means that it can have governmental authority on a level with prefectures. That is expected to be accomplished by April 2012 after negotiations with the national government.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:zh--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The merger of Kumamoto City with Ueki-machi and Jonan-machi took effect on the 23rd, creating a new Kumamoto City with a population of 728,000 people as of the 2005 census. That population gives it the qualifications to be classified as a \u201cdesignated government ordinance city\u201d, which means that it can have governmental authority on a level with prefectures. That is expected to be accomplished by April 2012 after negotiations with the national government.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The merger of Kumamoto City with Ueki-machi and Jonan-machi took effect on the 23rd, creating a new Kumamoto City with a population of 728,000 people as of the 2005 census. That population gives it the qualifications to be classified as a \u201cdesignated government ordinance city\u201d, which means that it can have governmental authority on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-6954","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}