Prefectures

Japan's 47 prefectures can be divided into 8 regions.

-Hokkaido   (Hokkaido)

-Tohoku   (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima)    

-Kanto   (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, TOKYO, Kanagawa)

-Chubu  (Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi, Nagano, Gifu,

Shizuoka, Aichi)

-Kansai (Mie, Shiga, KYOTO, OSAKA, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama)

-Chugoku   (Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, HIROSHIMA, Yamaguchi)

-Shikoku   (Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi)

-Kyushu   (Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, OKINAWA)