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Parent topics
- Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; world's second-largest economy; population about 127,000,000. [e]
Subtopics
Prefectures
See also prefectures
- Fukuoka prefecture [r]: (福岡県 Fukuoka-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu; population about 5,000,000. [e]
- Kagoshima prefecture [r]: (鹿児島県 Kagoshima-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and including some of the southerly Ryukyu Islands; population about 1,700,000. [e]
- Kumamoto prefecture [r]: (熊本県 Kumamoto-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu; population about 1,800,000. [e]
- Miyazaki prefecture [r]: (宮崎県 Miyazaki-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu; population about 1,100,000. [e]
- Nagasaki prefecture [r]: (長崎県 Nagasaki-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu, once a gateway for foreign trade during the country's isolationist period, and whose capital was struck by an atomic bomb in 1945; population about 1,450,000. [e]
- Oita prefecture [r]: (大分県 Ooita-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu; population about 1,200,000. [e]
- Saga prefecture [r]: (佐賀県 Saga-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu; population about 850,000. [e]
Other islands
- Tsushima [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ryukyu Islands [r]: (南西諸島 Nansei Shotoo 'Southwest Islands') subtropical Japanese island chain in the East China Sea, east of Taiwan; divided between Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures and home to the Ryukyuan languages and people. [e]
Other related topics
- Honshu [r]: (本州 Honshuu) largest of the islands of Japan, divided into five regions and including the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Hiroshima; population about 103,000,000. [e]
- Hokkaido [r]: (北海道 Hokkaidoo) second-largest and northernmost of the main islands of Japan, including the cities of Sapporo, Hakodate and Asahikawa; population about 5,500,000. [e]
- Shikoku [r]: (四国) smallest and least populated of the four main islands of Japan, divided into four prefectures and including the cities of Takamatsu, Matsuyama, Tokushima and Uwajima; population about 4,000,000. [e]
