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The name Kanto literally means "East of the Barrier". The name Kanto is nowadays generally considered to mean the region east (東) of the Hakone Barrier (箱根関). An antonym of Kanto, "West of the Barrier" means the Kansai region, which lies western Honshu and was the center of feudal Japan. [citation needed]
The Japanese Governor-General of Korea paid out Japanese ¥ 200 (1923) (equivalent to ¥ 98,969 or US$908 in 2019) [44] in compensation to 832 families of massacre victims, although the Japanese government on the mainland only admitted to about 250 deaths. [45]
In many contexts in Japan (government, media markets, sports, regional business or trade union confederations), regions are used that deviate from the above-mentioned common geographical 8-region division that is sometimes referred to as "the" regions of Japan in the English Wikipedia and some other English-language publications. Examples of ...
An incident after the Great Kanto earthquake is recreated in the 1998 film, After Life, known in Japanese as Wandafuru Raifu (or Wonderful Life). Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, the plot takes place in a way station for those who have just died. The newly deceased will take their happiest memory with them into the afterlife.
Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the Pokémon media franchise, named after the Japanese region of the same name; Kantō is a festival held in Akita every year. Akita Kanto (Japanese: 竿燈)
The Japanese government translates Tōkyō-to (東京都, [toːkʲoꜜːto]) as "Tokyo Metropolis" in almost all cases, and the government is officially called the "Tokyo Metropolitan Government". Following the capitulation of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, Tōkyō-fu (an urban prefecture like Kyoto and Osaka) was set up and encompassed the ...
Kantō Mountains or Kantō Range (Japanese: 関東山地) is a mountain range on the west side of the Kanto Plain in central Japan.. Geofeatures map of Kanto. It stretches from the western part of the Kantō region to the eastern part of the Chubu region [1] [2] [3] and spans Gunma, Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Nagano, and Yamanashi prefectures.
The Kantō dialects (関東方言 kantō hōgen, 関東弁 kantō-ben) are a group of Japanese dialects spoken in the Kantō region (except for the Izu Islands). [note 1] The Kantō dialects include the Tokyo dialect which is the basis of modern standard Japanese.