Tohoku region

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Tohoku region

The is a geographical area of Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. Tohoku is Japanese

Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
for "northeast," and the Tohoku region occupies the northeastern portion of Honshu

Honshu

or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
, the largest island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
of Japan. The area is also known as . The population estimate of Tohoku as of 2008 is 9,708,257.

The region consists of six prefectures

Prefectures of Japan

The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one "metropolis" , Tokyo; one "Circuit #Japan" , Hokkaido; two urban prefectures , Osaka Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture; and 43 other prefectures ....
: Akita

Akita Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku Region of northern Honshu, the main island of Japan. The capital is the city of Akita, Akita....
, Aomori

Aomori Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku Region. The capital is the city of Aomori, Aomori....
, Fukushima

Fukushima Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Fukushima, Fukushima....
, Iwate

Iwate Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. The capital is Morioka, Iwate....
, Miyagi

Miyagi Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai, Miyagi....
and Yamagata Prefecture

Yamagata Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. Its capital is Yamagata, Yamagata....
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The last stronghold of the indigenous

Indigenous peoples

File:Kaiapos.jpegThe term indigenous peoples or autochthonous peoples can be used to describe any ethnic group of people who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection, alongside immigrants which have populated the region and which are greater in number....
Ainu

Ainu people

are an ethnic group indigenous peoples to Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin. There are most likely over 150,000 Ainu today; however the exact figure is not known as many Ainu hide their origin due to Ethnic issues in Japan....
on Honshu and the site of many battle

Battle

Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, wherein each group will seek to defeat the others within the scope of a military campaign, and are well defined in duration, area and force commitment....
s, Tohoku retains a reputation as a remote region, offering breathtaking scenery but a harsh climate

Climate

Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, atmospheric pressure, winds, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other Meteorology elements in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity of these same elements....
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The is a geographical area of Japan

Japan

Japanese language

Honshu

Island

Prefectures of Japan

Akita Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku Region of northern Honshu, the main island of Japan. The capital is the city of Akita, Akita....
, Aomori

Aomori Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku Region. The capital is the city of Aomori, Aomori....
, Fukushima

Fukushima Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Fukushima, Fukushima....
, Iwate

Iwate Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. The capital is Morioka, Iwate....
, Miyagi

Miyagi Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai, Miyagi....
and Yamagata Prefecture

Yamagata Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. Its capital is Yamagata, Yamagata....
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The last stronghold of the indigenous

Indigenous peoples

Ainu people

Battle

Climate

Haiku

' ', plural haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 Mora e , in three metrical phrases of 5, 7 and 5 morae respectively. Haiku typically contain a kigo, or seasonal reference, and a kireji or verbal caesura....
poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
Matsuo Basho

Matsuo Basho

was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Basho was recognized for his works in the collaborative Renku form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku....
wrote Oku no Hosomichi
Oku no Hosomichi

meaning "Narrow road to/of the interior", translated alternately as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior) is a major work by the Japanese poet, Matsuo Basho . ...
(The Narrow Road to the Deep North) during his travels through Tohoku.

Tohoku, like most of Japan, is hilly or mountainous, with the Ou Mountains

Ou Mountains

The are a mountain range in the Tohoku region of Honshu, Japan. The range is the longest range in Japan and stretch south from the Natsudomari Peninsula of Aomori Prefecture to the Nasu volcanoes at the northern boundary of the Kanto region....
running north-south. Its initial historical settlement occurred between the seventh and ninth centuries, well after Japanese civilization

Yamato period

The is the period of history of Japan when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato Province.While conventionally assigned to the period 250?710 , the actual start of Yamato rule is disputed....
and culture

Culture of Japan

The culture of Japan has evolved greatly over millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jomon culture to its contemporary hybrid culture, which combines influences from Asia, Europe and North America....
had become firmly established in central and southwestern Japan. Although iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
, steel

Steel

Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.14% by weight , depending on grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten....
, cement

Cement

In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together....
, chemical, pulp

Wood pulp

Pulp is a dry fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating fibers from wood or fiber crops.Pulp can be either fluffy or formed into thick sheets....
, and petroleum

Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds....
-refining industries began developing in the 1960s, Tohoku was traditionally considered the granary

Granary

A granary is a storehouse for threshed cereal or animal feed. In ancient or primitive granaries, pottery is the most common use of storage in these buildings....
of Japan because it supplied Sendai and the Tokyo

Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
-Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kanto region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area....
market with rice

Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
and other farm commodities

Commodity

A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative product differentiation across a market. It is a product that is the same no matter who produces it, such as petroleum, notebook paper, or milk....
. Tohoku provided 20 percent of the nation's rice crop. The climate, however, is harsher than in other parts of Honshu and permits only one crop a year on paddy field

Paddy field

A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other Aquatic plant. Rice can also be grown in dry-fields, but from the twentieth century paddy field agriculture became the dominant form of growing rice....
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The inland location of many of the region's lowland

Lowland

In physical geography, a lowland is any broad expanse of land with a general low level. The term is thus applied to the landward portion of the upward slope from oceanic depths to continental highlands, to a region of depression in the interior of a mountainous region, to a plain of denudation, or to any region in contrast to a highland ....
s has led to a concentration

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
of much of the population

Population

File:Population density.pngIn biology, a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species; in sociology, a collection of human beings....
there. Coupled with coast

Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
lines that do not favor seaport development

Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
, this settlement pattern resulted in a much greater than usual dependence on land

Road transport

Road transport or road transportation is transport on roads of passengers or goods.A hybrid of road transport and ship transport is the historic horse-drawn boat....
and railroad

Rail transport

Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways . Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates international trade and economic growth....
transport

Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of passenger and cargo from one location to another. Transport is performed by various modes of transport, such as aviation, rail transport, road transport, ship transport, cable transport, pipeline transport and space transport....
ation. Low points in the central mountain range fortunately make communication

Communication

Communication is commonly defined as "the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs...",, 1: an act or instance of transmitting and 3 a: "a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or beha...
s between lowlands on either side of the range moderately easy. Tourism

Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
became a major industry

Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
in the Tohoku region, with points of interest including

Hirosaki
Hirosaki, Aomori

Hirosaki is a cities of Japan located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.Hirosaki Castle, a famous landmark, is located in the city. It is famous for the Cherry Blossom Festival held in the park surrounding the castle....
the islands of Matsushima Bay
Matsushima

Matsushima is a group of islands in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. There are some 260 tiny islands covered in pines ? hence the name ? and is ranked as one of the Three Views of Japan....
Lake Towada
Lake Towada

is the largest caldera lake in the island of Honshu, Japan. Located in Aomori Prefecture and Akita Prefecture prefectures, it lies 400 meters above sea level, and is drained by the Oirase river....
Oirase River
Oirase River

The is located in Aomori prefecture, Japan. It drains Lake Towada, the largest caldera lake in the island of Honshu. It is about 70km long, one of the shortest in Japan....
Valley
Lake Tazawa
Lake Tazawa

is a caldera lake in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan. It is the deepest lake in Japan . Because of its depth, it never freezes.Formerly the lake was noted for having very clear water which could be compared to Lake Mashu in Hokkaido....
Kakunodate
Kakunodate, Akita

Kakunodate is a towns of Japan located in Senboku District, Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan.On September 202005 the town merged with the town of Tazawako, Akita and the village of Nishiki, Akita to form the new city of Senboku, Akita....
the Rikuchu Coastline National Park
the Bandai-Asahi National Park
Bandai-Asahi National Park

is a national park in the Tohoku region, Honshu, Japan. The park site straddles over Fukushima Prefecture, Yamagata Prefecture, and Nigata Prefecture....
Sanriku Coastline
Morioka
Morioka, Iwate

is the capital cities of Japan of Iwate Prefecture prefecture, Japan.As of 2005, the city has an estimated population of 300,740 and the population density of 588.11 persons per km?....
Hiraizumi
Hiraizumi, Iwate

is a towns of Japan located in Nishiiwai District, Iwate, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It was the home of the Hiraizumi Fujiwaras for about 100 years in the late Heian era and most of the following Kamakura period....
Aizu
Aizu

is an area comprising the westernmost third of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. The principal city of the area is Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima.During the Edo period, Aizu was a han known as and part of Mutsu province....
Mount Bandai
Mount Bandai

is a stratovolcano in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.In a major eruption on July 15, 1888 the north and east parts of the caldera collapsed in a massive landslide, forming two lakes, Lake Hibara and Onogawa-ko, as well as several minor lakes called Goshiki-numa, or the 'Five Coloured Lakes'....
Three Mountains of Dewa
Three Mountains of Dewa

The refer to the three sacred mountains of Mount Haguro, Mount Gassan and Mount Yudono, which are clustered together in the ancient province of Dewa Province ....

Tohoku region

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