STORIES ON THREADS / 47 PREFECTURES
What if your town
came for an interview?
Each of Japan's 47 prefectures sits down for a job interview.
Local readers send corrections and the story is rewritten as a “revised” version. Some prefectures even come back for a second interview. Everything is listed here.
The stories are in Japanese. English place names below help you find your way.
NEW
Newly added.
Revised versions and second interviews land here first.
If a place you read has changed, read it again.
FIND YOUR PLACE
Start somewhere
you know.
Links under each name open the story on Threads, in Japanese.
One prefecture may list an interview, a revised version and a second interview.
- Interview
- The first interview. A prefecture speaks for itself.
- Revised
- Rewritten from local readers' comments. Compare the two and you can see what changed.
- Second interview
- A prefecture that read its review and came back on its own, with a different story.
Hokkaido & Tohoku
- Hokkaido北海道
- Aomori青森県
- Iwate岩手県
- Miyagi宮城県
- Akita秋田県
- Yamagata山形県
- Fukushima福島県
Kanto
- Ibaraki茨城県
- Tochigi栃木県
- Gunma群馬県
- Saitama埼玉県
- Chiba千葉県
- Tokyo東京都
- Kanagawa神奈川県
Chubu
- Niigata新潟県
- Toyama富山県
- Ishikawa石川県
- Fukui福井県
- Yamanashi山梨県
- Nagano長野県
- Gifu岐阜県
- Shizuoka静岡県
- Aichi愛知県
Kinki
- Mie三重県
- Shiga滋賀県
- Kyoto京都府
- Osaka大阪府
- Hyogo兵庫県
- Nara奈良県
- Wakayama和歌山県
Chugoku
- Tottori鳥取県
- Shimane島根県
- Okayama岡山県
- Hiroshima広島県
- Yamaguchi山口県
Shikoku
- Tokushima徳島県
- Kagawa香川県
- Ehime愛媛県
- Kochi高知県
Kyushu & Okinawa
- Fukuoka福岡県
- Saga佐賀県
- Nagasaki長崎県
- Kumamoto熊本県
- Oita大分県
- Miyazaki宮崎県
- Kagoshima鹿児島県
- Okinawa沖縄県
Updated October 24, 2026 from the Threads feed. 97 stories across 47 prefectures so far. New revisions and second interviews appear here automatically.
REQUEST
You choose
the next prefecture.
Requests and corrections arrive through the official LINE account (Japanese). Reader notes become the next revised version.
Add the account, then send a place name and a line or two.
BOOKS
Books by the interviewer.
CHIERO, who writes these interviews, has published more than 200 Kindle titles in Japanese. The beginner's guide to Hagakure reached #1 bestseller in Amazon Japan's history and geography reference category (company-reported). If the prefectures made you smile, the classics are a good next door.
KEEP READING
More characters.
More conversations.
Beyond places, familiar things and everyday words also come for an interview.
KEEP IN TOUCH
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What it made us think.
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