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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Japan |
 | | At the head of each district is a sub-prefect, at the head of each village or town is a mayor assisted by a council. |
 | | The departments, districts, towns, and villages have a special budget administered by the general council, the district council, the municipal council, and increased by local revenues independent of the taxes raised by the Government. |
 | | The tribunals number 358; courts of cassation, 1; courts of appeal, 7 (Tokio, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Miyaga, and Hakodate); lower courts (district courts), 49 (at least one to a department); courts of justices of the peace (sub-district courts), 301. |
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