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Shizuoka |
Shizuoka Prefecture (静岡県, Shizuoka-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.
Shizuoka prefecture was previously divided into Tōtōmi Province, Suruga Province and Izu Province,...
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| x Aichi Prefecture |
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Nagoya |
Aichi Prefecture (愛知県, Aichi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tokai region of the Chūbu region. The capital is Nagoya. It is the focus of the Chūkyō Metropolitan Area.
Originally, the region was divided into the three provinces of Owari,...
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| x Gifu Prefecture |
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Gifu |
Gifu Prefecture (岐阜県, Gifu-ken) is a prefecture located in the Chūbu region of central Japan. Its capital is the city of Gifu. Located in the center of Japan, it has long played an important part as the crossroads of Japan, connecting the east to...
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| x Tochigi Prefecture |
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Utsunomiya |
Tochigi Prefecture (栃木県, Tochigi-ken) is a prefecture located in the Kantō region on the island of Honshū, Japan. The capital is the city of Utsunomiya. Utsunomiya is famous for its many gyoza specialist shops. Also located in Utsunomiya, Tochigi...
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| x Niigata Prefecture |
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Niigata |
Niigata prefecture (新潟県, Niigata-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Honshū island on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The capital is the city of Niigata. The name Niigata literally means "new lagoon".
Niigata prefecture was originally divided...
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| x Miyagi Prefecture |
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Sendai |
Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県, Miyagi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku Region on Honshū island. The capital is Sendai.
Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu. Mutsu Province, on northern Honshū, was one of the last...
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| x Nagasaki Prefecture |
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Nagasaki |
Nagasaki Prefecture (長崎県, Nagasaki-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. The capital is the city of Nagasaki.
Nagasaki Prefecture, a unification of the western half of the former province of Hizen, with the former island...
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| x Chiba Prefecture |
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Chiba |
Chiba Prefecture (千葉県, Chiba-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Greater Tokyo Area. Its capital is Chiba City.
Chiba Prefecture was established on June 15, 1873 with the merger of Kisarazu Prefecture and Inba Prefecture. Historically, the...
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| x Miyazaki Prefecture |
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Miyazaki |
Miyazaki Prefecture (宮崎県, Miyazaki-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. The capital is the city of Miyazaki.
Historically, after the Meiji Restoration, Hyūga Province was renamed Miyazaki Prefecture. See Abolition of the...
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| x Ibaraki Prefecture |
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Mito |
Ibaraki Prefecture (茨城県, Ibaraki-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region on Honshū island. The capital is Mito.
Ibaraki Prefecture was previously known as Hitachi Province. In 1871, the name of the province became Ibaraki. The name...
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| x Mie Prefecture |
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Tsu |
Mie Prefecture (三重県, Mie-ken) is a prefecture of Japan which is part of the Kansai regions on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Tsu.
Evidence of human habitation in Mie can be dated to more than 10,000 years ago. During the Jōmon and Yayoi...
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| x Kyoto Prefecture |
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Kyoto |
Kyoto Prefecture (京都府, Kyōto-fu) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Kyoto.
For most of its history, the city of Kyoto was the Imperial capital of Japan. The history of the city...
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| x Oita Prefecture |
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Akita |
Ōita Prefecture (大分県, Ōita-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. The prefectural capital is the city of Ōita.
After the Meiji Restoration, Bungo and southern Buzen Provinces were combined to form Ōita Prefecture: These provinces...
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| x Tokushima Prefecture |
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Tokushima |
Tokushima Prefecture (徳島県, Tokushima-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island. The capital is the city of Tokushima.
Long ago, Tokushima City belonged to a region known as Myodo-gun. But in the first wave of government consolidation...
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| x Nagano Prefecture |
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Nagano |
Nagano Prefecture (長野県, Nagano-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Nagano.
Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano, and was divided among many local daimyo during...
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| x Ehime Prefecture |
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Matsuyama |
Ehime Prefecture (愛媛県, Ehime-ken) is a prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan. The capital is Matsuyama.
Until the Meiji Restoration, Ehime prefecture was known as Iyo Province. Since before the Heian period, the area was dominated by fishermen...
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| x Okinawa Prefecture |
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Naha |
Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken, Okinawan: Uchinaa) is one of Japan's southern prefectures, and consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 km long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū (the southwesternmost of Japan's main...
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| x Yamagata Prefecture |
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Yamagata |
Yamagata Prefecture (山形県, Yamagata-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshū island. Its capital is Yamagata.
The aboriginal Ezo people (蝦夷) once inhabited the area now known as Yamagata. During the Heian Period (794–1185)...
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| x Okayama Prefecture |
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Okayama |
Okayama Prefecture (岡山県, Okayama-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Okayama.
During the Meiji Restoration; Bitchū Province, Bizen Province and Mimasaka Province were combined to...
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| x Saitama Prefecture |
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Saitama |
Saitama Prefecture (埼玉県, Saitama-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Saitama.
This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo,...
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| x Toyama Prefecture |
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Toyama |
Toyama Prefecture (富山県, Toyama-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Toyama.
Toyama is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, and has the industrial advantage of...
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| x Akita Prefecture |
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Akita |
Akita Prefecture (秋田県, Akita-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku Region of northern Honshū, the main island of Japan. The capital is the city of Akita.
Separated from the principal Japanese centres of commerce, politics, and...
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| x Kanagawa Prefecture |
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Yokohama |
Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県, Kanagawa-ken) is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Honshū, Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.
The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon...
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| x Hyogo Prefecture |
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Kobe |
Hyōgo Prefecture (兵庫県, Hyōgo-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is Kobe.
The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.
Present-day Hyōgo Prefecture includes the former...
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| x Ishikawa Prefecture |
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Kanazawa |
Ishikawa Prefecture (石川県, Ishikawa-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is Kanazawa.
Ishikawa was formed from the merger of Kaga Province and the smaller Noto Province.
Ishikawa is on the Sea of...
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| x Wakayama Prefecture |
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Wakayama |
Wakayama Prefecture (和歌山県, Wakayama-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Wakayama.
Present-day Wakayama is mostly the western part of the province of Kii.
Nine...
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| x Shimane Prefecture |
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Matsue |
Shimane Prefecture (島根県, Shimane-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshū island. The capital is Matsue. It is the second least populous prefecture in Japan, next to the Tottori Prefecture that is a neighboring...
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| x Yamaguchi Prefecture |
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Yamaguchi |
Yamaguchi Prefecture (山口県, Yamaguchi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Yamaguchi located in the center of the Prefecture: The largest city, by contrast, is Shimonoseki.
Yamaguchi...
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| x Iwate Prefecture |
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Morioka |
Iwate Prefecture (岩手県, Iwate-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region on Honshū island. The capital is Morioka.
Iwate was historically part of Mutsu Province. It was brought into the empire around 800.
In the Jōmon period it was an...
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| x Shiga Prefecture |
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Otsu |
Shiga Prefecture (滋賀県, Shiga-ken) is a prefecture of Japan which is part of the Kinki region on Honshū Island. The capital is the city of Ōtsu.
Shiga was known as Ōmi Province before the prefectural system was established.
Shiga shares a border with...
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| x Fukuoka Prefecture |
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Fukuoka |
Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県, Fukuoka-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka.
Fukuoka Prefecture includes the former provinces of Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen.
Fukuoka Prefecture has signed Friendship...
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| x Hokkaido |
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Sapporo |
Hokkaidō (help·info) (北海道, literally "North Sea Circuit"), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost of its 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō...
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| x Yamanashi Prefecture |
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Kofu |
Yamanashi Prefecture (山梨県, Yamanashi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Kōfu.
People have been living in the Yamanashi area for about 30,000 years. As in most other Japanese...
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| x Kagoshima Prefecture |
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Kagoshima |
Kagoshima Prefecture (鹿児島県, Kagoshima-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. The capital is the city of Kagoshima.
Kagoshima Prefecture is located at the southwest tip of Kyūshū and includes a chain of islands stretching...
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| x Kumamoto Prefecture |
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Kumamoto |
Kumamoto Prefecture (熊本県, Kumamoto-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Kumamoto.
Historically the area was called Higo Province and was renamed to Kumamoto Prefecture during the Meiji Restoration as...
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| x Osaka Prefecture |
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Osaka |
Osaka Prefecture (大阪府, Ōsaka-fu) is a prefecture located in the Kansai region on Honshū, the main island of Japan. The capital is the city of Osaka. It is the center of Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto area.
For the history of Osaka prior to Meiji Restoration, see...
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| x Kagawa Prefecture |
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Takamatsu |
Kagawa Prefecture (香川県, Kagawa-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island. The capital is Takamatsu.
Kagawa was formerly known as Sanuki Province.
For a brief period between August 1876 and December 1888, Kagawa was made a part of Ehime...
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| x Fukui Prefecture |
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Fukui |
Fukui Prefecture (福井県, Fukui-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Fukui.
Fukui originally consisted of the old provinces of Wakasa and Echizen, before the prefecture was formed in...
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| x Tottori Prefecture |
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Tottori |
Tottori Prefecture (鳥取県, Tottori-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Tottori. It is the least populous prefecture in Japan.
Tottori originally consisted of the old provinces of...
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| x Kochi Prefecture |
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Kochi |
Kōchi Prefecture (高知県, Kōchi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the south coast of Shikoku. The capital is the city of Kōchi.
Prior to the Meiji Restoration, Kōchi was known as Tosa Province.
Kōchi Prefecture comprises the southwestern part of...
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| x Saga Prefecture |
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Saga |
Saga Prefecture (佐賀県, Saga-ken) is located in the northwest part of the island of Kyūshū, Japan. It touches both the Sea of Japan and the Ariake Sea. The western part of the prefecture is a region famous for producing ceramics and porcelain,...
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| x Nara Prefecture |
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Nara |
Nara Prefecture (奈良県, Nara-ken) is a prefecture in the Kansai region on Honshū 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...
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| x Fukushima Prefecture |
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Fukushima |
Fukushima Prefecture (福島県, Fukushima-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region on the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Fukushima.
In the 4th century, Fukushima was incorporated into the Yamato Province, Japan's first...
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| x Aomori Prefecture |
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Aomori |
Aomori Prefecture (青森県, Aomori-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku Region. The capital is the city of Aomori.
The Aomori Prefecture came into existence in 1871. Aomori Town was established in 1889. The town was incorporated as a city...
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| x Hiroshima Prefecture |
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Hiroshima |
Hiroshima Prefecture (広島県, Hiroshima-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Hiroshima.
The area around Hiroshima, formerly divided into Bingo and Aki provinces, has been a center of...
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| x Gunma Prefecture |
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Maebashi |
Gunma Prefecture (群馬県, Gunma-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the northwest corner of the Kantō region on Honshū island. Its capital is Maebashi.
The remains of a Paleolithic man were found at Iwajuku, Gunma Prefecture, in the early 20th...
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| x Tokyo |
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Tokyo (東京, Tōkyō), officially Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to), is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that...
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