自治体

Meanings

1. Noun

   municipality; local government; self-governing body; autonomous body

• 自治体じちたいはゴミ処理しょり問題もんだいに頭あたまを抱かかえている。

  The municipal government is at their wits' end concerning the garbage problem.

• 成人年齢せいじんねんれいが１８歳さいに引ひき下さげられた後あとも、成人式せいじんしきは今いままで通どおり２０歳ぜろさいで行おこなうという自治体じちたいが多おおいようです。

  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.