Takanoha

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Takanoha, can you point out the section of 地方自治法 that explains the status of Tokyo-to? I think that we are misunderstanding each other. I would like to see what the actual law says, but it's very long and I haven't found the correct section. I appreciate your help. - Sekicho 12:18, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)

The point is that the law put to and do-fu-ken on the basically equal plane, as told by the items 1 and 2. Only distinction between to and do-fu-ken in this law is in the items 281 through 283, about the definition of ku in to, however, other laws including chiho-zei-hou (local tax), suidou-hou (water services), shoubou-hou (fire service), and possible others give specialities to to. If you do not used to legalese wording, beware of the item 283 which tells more than what a common people perceives. Read carefully and literally.

Note that, as the apendix item 2, the previous to system and do-fu-ken system have been abolished by this law. -- Takanoha 11:54, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you! I've updated Tokyo#Administration... please tell me what you think. I also put some of this information into the 23 special wards article. Are these revisions correct? -- Sekicho 08:06, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)

I changed words which had been implying the present Tokyo Metropolitan Government is a kind of city through the article. But do you mind this change?

I think the article is great now. It clearly states what Tokyo is. Finally, we have this settled! -- Sekicho 05:30, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)

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Just out of curiosity what is the reason for removing the div tag that wrapped around the table out of the Yamanashi prefecture page? Are there formatting issues in your browser? cheers, --synthetik 12:42, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes. My browser (years old konqueror) stubles on them. I removed div tags because pages look fine without them when I tried IE6, and US state articles do not have them from the outset, but I'm sorry if it made any harm to you or someone else. Feel free to revert.

Ok, I put them there initially because in certain cases, the text was running right up to the border of the table and I like a clean layout where not everything is mangled. If it breaks that badly in some browsers we should just leave it as is, I suppose.

Just as a side note; if you like Konqi try the new one that comes with 3.2 it's worlds better then the 3.2 series. :) cheers, synthetik 12:40, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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