Japan

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of historic and economical
development. The four largest islands are Hokkaido(2), Honshu, Shikoku,
and Kyushu. Honshu, the largest island, is usually divided into five
regions; Tohoku (3), Kanto (4),Chubu (5), Kinki(6), and Chugoku (7).

According to Cultural Atlas of Japan, Hokkaido is Japan's northern
frontier.(1,p.23 ). Dominated by the daisetsu mountain range and national
park, Hokkaido is an island of forests, rivers, sheer cliffs and rolling
pastures. It's located at roughly the same latitude as New England or
southern France. Hokkaido is bounded by the Sea of Okhotsk to the North
and East, the Sea of Japan to the West, and the Pacific Ocean to the South.
It is 83517 square kilometres in area, a little smaller than Ireland. Its
climate is quite different from that of Honshu, with colder temperatures,
lower rainfall, no rainy season, few typhoons, and a much shorter growing
season of only 120 to 140 days a year. Hokkaido was outside the rice-
growing area in premodern ...

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characteristics
depending on their latitude and which sea they face. The coastal plains of
Honshu were for centuries the heartland of Japanese rice agriculture. They
have also been the site of dense urban settlement and heavy industrial
development.(1,p.25)

The north-eastern part of Honshu, comprising the prefectures of Aomori,
Iwate, Akita, Miyagi, Yamagata, and Fukushima is known as the Tohoku.
Traditionally labelled the granary of Japan, it is still predominantly a
farming area, supplying Sendai and the huge Tokyo-Yokohama market with rice
and other commodities. Farms in northern Tohoku, while smaller than some
dairy farms in Hokkaido, are larger than the national ...

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