Toyama Prefecture
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Toyama Prefecture (富山県, Toyama-ken) is in the Chūbu, meaning centre part, region on Honshū island, Japan. The capital is the city of Toyama.
[change] Great nature
Toyama is famous by its great mountains and rich fishery. Trout sushi(ますずし;masu-zushi), firefly squid(ほたるいか;hotaru-ika) and mass product of tulip industry are also famous.
[change] Industry
Toyama has one of the strongest industrial prefecture on the Japan-sea coast, companies were historically taking advantage of cheap electricity generated from its rich water with 3000-meter class mountains. The Itai-itai disease, its origin is from polluted water with cadmium, occurred in Toyama around 1950.
Nowadays, electricity is not surprisingly cheap, because they mainly use oil to generate it. But Aluminum industry is still strong with companies such as YKK or Sankyo Aluminum.
[change] Sports
By 2006, there were two company-owned football teams. Toyama has rapidly become a sporting prefecture when they began to have a nation-wide professional basketball team and a regional baseball team is started by great support of many companies. But there is no teams in NPB, major baseball league, and J. League, Japan's highest-level football league.