metropolitan area
A metropolitan area (capital region) is a capital and the neighboring areas.
It is based on the policy that possessed it, and, in the neighboring areas, it is built the maintenance as a national policy of each country with "the capital" having national nucleus function of each country by emergency and I name the capital outskirts area that was able to include such a defense function generally and generally call it with "a metropolitan area".
In metropolitan area maintenance method (a law) and the metropolitan area maintenance method enforcement order (a government ordinance), it is prescribed with 7 prefectures of one capitals of 6 prefectures of one Kanto region capitals (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma) where the whole enters at the Tokyo station to a radius of less than 150km and Yamanashi (except Tsurushi) in total without it being defined definitely about a metropolitan area in Japan.
The expansion back of the city area is the neighboring area to establish by Tokyo Metropolis, Saitama, Kanagawa and a government ordinance afterwards, and, as for the way of thinking of the metropolitan area in above laws and ordinances, the effect is prescribed basically the neighboring area to establish in a ward and a government ordinance of Tokyo by the text of the law.
And it prescribes Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamanashi by the existing government ordinance as the suburban area.
For "the metropolitan area wide area disaster prevention foothold maintenance basics design that the metropolitan area wide area disaster prevention foothold maintenance meeting of Cabinet Office made, it establishes "area (I define these areas as capital prefecture City" and in late years am called eight capital prefecture cities which included Saitama City) of Saitama, Chiba (Chiba-shi) of the South Kanto area, Tokyo and Kanagawa" (Yokohama-shi, Kawasaki-shi) that is an a population of crowd area with "a metropolitan area" and speaks the disaster prevention plan of these areas.
Because I cannot secure a refuge foothold with enough tolerance that all the inhabitants can evacuate in the case of a state of emergency only in eight capital prefecture city limits, in this basic design, that cooperation with the rear area (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamanashi) of "the metropolitan area" is necessary is touched.
In the metropolitan area maintenance method, "a metropolitan area" regards 7 prefectures of one capitals, but, as for the way of thinking to refer these areas to "a metropolitan area", there are generally a great many cases to name Tokyo Metropolis, Kanagawa, Chiba, one capital 3 prefectures of Saitama "a metropolitan area" common knowledge when I use it for the wide area media or private investigation / study without being thorough, and rather this place is more common.
However, there are these areas in a meaning to avoid misunderstanding when I am called "Tokyo neighboring" and "capital neighbor", "South Kanto", "South Kanto".
It is based on the policy that possessed it, and, in the neighboring areas, it is built the maintenance as a national policy of each country with "the capital" having national nucleus function of each country by emergency and I name the capital outskirts area that was able to include such a defense function generally and generally call it with "a metropolitan area".
In metropolitan area maintenance method (a law) and the metropolitan area maintenance method enforcement order (a government ordinance), it is prescribed with 7 prefectures of one capitals of 6 prefectures of one Kanto region capitals (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma) where the whole enters at the Tokyo station to a radius of less than 150km and Yamanashi (except Tsurushi) in total without it being defined definitely about a metropolitan area in Japan.
The expansion back of the city area is the neighboring area to establish by Tokyo Metropolis, Saitama, Kanagawa and a government ordinance afterwards, and, as for the way of thinking of the metropolitan area in above laws and ordinances, the effect is prescribed basically the neighboring area to establish in a ward and a government ordinance of Tokyo by the text of the law.
And it prescribes Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamanashi by the existing government ordinance as the suburban area.
For "the metropolitan area wide area disaster prevention foothold maintenance basics design that the metropolitan area wide area disaster prevention foothold maintenance meeting of Cabinet Office made, it establishes "area (I define these areas as capital prefecture City" and in late years am called eight capital prefecture cities which included Saitama City) of Saitama, Chiba (Chiba-shi) of the South Kanto area, Tokyo and Kanagawa" (Yokohama-shi, Kawasaki-shi) that is an a population of crowd area with "a metropolitan area" and speaks the disaster prevention plan of these areas.
Because I cannot secure a refuge foothold with enough tolerance that all the inhabitants can evacuate in the case of a state of emergency only in eight capital prefecture city limits, in this basic design, that cooperation with the rear area (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamanashi) of "the metropolitan area" is necessary is touched.
In the metropolitan area maintenance method, "a metropolitan area" regards 7 prefectures of one capitals, but, as for the way of thinking to refer these areas to "a metropolitan area", there are generally a great many cases to name Tokyo Metropolis, Kanagawa, Chiba, one capital 3 prefectures of Saitama "a metropolitan area" common knowledge when I use it for the wide area media or private investigation / study without being thorough, and rather this place is more common.
However, there are these areas in a meaning to avoid misunderstanding when I am called "Tokyo neighboring" and "capital neighbor", "South Kanto", "South Kanto".