Word Meaning 自治
自治 is read as じち (jichi) and means local (governmental) autonomy.
Meaning
English
- local (governmental) autonomy
- self-government
- autonomy
Reading
Kana
じち
Romaji
jichi
Stroke Sequence
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5ロシアや中国は多くの自治区を持ちます。
Russia and China have many autonomous regions.
自治体はゴミ処理問題に頭を抱えている。
The municipal government is at their wits' end concerning the garbage problem.
地方自治体が中央政府に従うことが必ずしも正しいとは、私は思わない。
I don't think it's always right for local governments to submit to the central government.
成人年齢が18歳に引き下げられた後も、成人式は今まで通り20歳で行うという自治体が多いようです。
Even after the legal age of adulthood got lowered to 18, it seems like there's still a lot of places where they continue to do their coming of age ceremonies at 20, as they'd been doing before.
さらに、個人の属する国又は地域が独立国であると、信託統治地域であると、非自治地域であると、又は他のなんらかの主権制限の下にあるとを問わず、その国又は地域の政治上、管轄上又は国際上の地位に基づくいかなる差別もしてはならない。
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.