Japan’s Ministry of Health has published a breakdown of novel coronavirus cases by prefecture. The Ministry counted 681 cases nationwide as of noon on March 15th, excluding the 697 people from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. A total of 31 infected people have died.
As JapanToday reports, Japan has the ninth-largest number of infections in the world, behind China, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, France, Germany and the United States, according to a Kyodo News tally based on information such as data released by each government.
This is the breakdown by prefecture:
| Prefecture | Number of Confirmed Cases |
|
| Nationwide | 681 | |
| 1 | Hokkaido | 141 |
| 2 | Aichi | 117 |
| 3 | Osaka | 86 |
| 4 | Tokyo | 81 |
| 5 | Hyogo | 53 |
| 6 | Kanagawa | 43 |
| 7 | Chiba | 29 |
| 8 | Saitama | 27 |
| 9 | Niigata | 14 |
| 10 | Kyoto | 14 |
| 11 | Wakayama | 12 |
| 12 | Kochi | 11 |
| 13 | Gunma | 5 |
| 14 | Ishikawa | 5 |
| 15 | Mie | 5 |
| 16 | Kumamoto | 5 |
| 17 | Shizuoka | 4 |
| 18 | Nara | 4 |
| 19 | Nagano | 3 |
| 20 | Gifu | 3 |
| 21 | Fukuoka | 3 |
| 22 | Okinawa | 3 |
| 23 | Fukushima | 2 |
| 24 | Tochigi | 2 |
| 25 | Yamanashi | 2 |
| 26 | Miyagi | 1 |
| 27 | Akita | 1 |
| 28 | Shiga | 1 |
| 29 | Hiroshima | 1 |
| 30 | Yamaguchi | 1 |
| 31 | Ehime | 1 |
| 32 | Saga | 1 |
| 33 | Oita | 1 |
| 34 | Miyazaki | 1 |
Sources: Japan Ministry of Health (in Japanese, March 15, 2020; JapanToday; Reuters
Lead image: Wikimedia map of Japan by region