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posts/2023-09-09-japan-prefecture.html

@@ -2208,17 +2208,19 @@ <h3 id="nagano_heading">Nagano - 長野県 (1876)</h3>
     >, there was a rumor that the samurai of <ruby>上田<rt>うえだ</rt></ruby
     >, Nagano Prefecture, had learned about the incoming merger with Chikuma.
     Supposedly, the samurai thought that if the government offices at Matsumoto
-    were unusable Ueda would become the prefectural capital as logically a
-    central location like Matsumoto or Ueda would make sense. Thus, they saw it
-    as beneficial to Ueda to commit arson. 3 suspects were eventually detained,
-    but they were let go. The result was that because Matsumoto's governmental
-    offices were unusable, Nagano's offices were considered good enough even if
-    it was too far to the north.
-  </p>
-  <p>
-    Another potential consideration for Nagano was that 長野 was a temple town
-    while Matsumoto was a castle town and thus had many more samurai. Avoiding
-    samurai was at least a reason in places like Saitama.
+    were unusable, Ueda would naturally become the prefectural capital. The
+    logic being that the prefectural capital would only make sense to be in a
+    centrally located place like Matsumoto or Ueda. Thus, the samurai saw it as
+    beneficial to Ueda to commit arson. 3 suspects were eventually detained, but
+    they were let go. The end result was that Matsumoto's governmental offices
+    became unusable. Even though Nagano was located far to the north, its
+    offices used by the pre-merger prefecture were clearly considered
+    serviceable enough.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    Another potential point in favor of Nagano was that 長野 was a temple town
+    while Matsumoto was a castle town. Matsumoto thus had many more samurai.
+    Avoiding samurai was at least a reason in places like Saitama.
   </p>
   <p>
     Because of the inconvenient location of Nagano city, there have been