Okinawa is in the northeastern end of Okinawa Prefecture. The northern half is administratively part of Kagoshima Prefecture and Kyushu. Rhodes city was the capital of the former Dodecanese Prefecture. Eleven cities are located within the Okinawa Prefecture. Takeuchi was born in Taisha city in the Hikawa district of Shimane Prefecture. Okayama became the capital of Okayama Prefecture. Japanese immigrants are mostly from the Okinawa Prefecture. Kamiya was born in 1970 in Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture. Amano was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. This made Hokkaido the most agriculturally rich prefecture of Japan. Murata was born in 1978 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Aoi was born in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. Politically, they live in either Okinawa Prefecture or Kagoshima Prefecture. Much of the industrialized north of the prefecture was destroyed.