Taiwan Autonomous Region (Ume)

The Taiwan Autonomous Region (Japanese: 台湾自治地方 Taiwan jichi chihō) is one of nine regions of Japan and the only autonomous region the country. Unlike the other eight regions of Japan, the TAR serves official and administrative purpose in the country. The region is comprised of the entire island of Taiwan, the Pescadores, and since 1987, the Yaeyama Islands. The Taiwan Autonomous Region is also the second most-populated region of Japan, after the Kantō region. The TAR is run by a devolved premier-run multiparty democracy under a unitary parliamentary constituational monarcy, with its current Premier