This was also a historical usage of the character in China.

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Prefectures of Japan - Wikipedia

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The West's use of "prefecture" to label these Japanese regions stems from 16th-century Portuguese explorers and traders use of "prefeitura" to describe the fiefdoms they encountered there.[citation...

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