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Special form of municipalities in Honshu, Japan
The 23 special wards of Tokyo are a unique form of municipality under Japan's 1947 Local Autonomy Law. They are city-level wards: primary subdivisions of a prefecture with municipal autonomy. Together, they cover 627 km2 (242 sq mi) and, as of 2024, house roughly 9.8 million residents, yielding a density of about 15,742 people/km2. Similar ward systems are legally possible in other prefectures, but none have been established.
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Central Tokyo has experienced 35 consecutive days of rainfall, setting the longest continuous rainy streak since records began in 1886, reported local media citing Japan’s weather agency. Rains began on Aug. 27 and have continued daily as of Sept. 30. This spell breaks the previous record of 33 consecutive days of…
The record rainfall has been blamed on a combination of climate change and El Niño, which has created a prolonged high pressure front in the Pacific
Rainfall since beginning of September reaches nearly 3 times monthly average. - Greenline