High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nara Prefecture is a prefecture in the Kansai region on Honsh? Island, Japan. The capital is the city of Nara. The present-day Nara Prefecture was created in 1887, making it independent of Osaka Prefecture. Historically, Nara Prefecture was also known as Yamato-no-kuni or Yamato Province. It is certain that a political force established at the foot of Mount Miwa in the east of Nara Basin, seeking unification of most parts in Japan from the third century until the fourth century, though the process was not well documented. At the dawn of history, Yamato was clearly the political center of Japan.