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Aug 30, 2024 · Kanagawa, ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, located south of Tokyo and bordered by Tokyo Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Yokohama, on the bay, is the prefectural capital. The eastern half of the prefecture constitutes the southwestern portion of the Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan.
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Sep 7, 2024 · Yokohama, city and port, capital of Kanagawa prefecture, east-central Honshu, Japan. The second most populous city in the country, it is a major component of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area, the largest urban agglomeration in Japan.
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22 hours ago · It is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, bordered to the east by Tokyo Bay and located in the middle of the Kantō plain. The city is surrounded by hills and the characteristic mountain system of the island of Honshū, so its growth has been limited and it has had to gain ground from the sea.
4 days ago · Tokyo, to (metropolis), in east-central Honshu, Japan. It is bordered by the ken (prefectures) of Saitama (north), Chiba (east), Yamanashi (west), and Kanagawa (southwest) and by Tokyo Bay (southeast). It is centred on the city of Tokyo, which is both the national capital and the capital of the metropolis.
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4 days ago · Meiji Restoration, in Japanese history, the political revolution in 1868 that brought about the final demise of the Tokugawa shogunate (military government)—thus ending the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867)—and, at least nominally, returned control of the country to direct imperial rule under Mutsuhito (the emperor Meiji).
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- The Meiji Restoration was a coup d’état that resulted in the dissolution of Japan’s feudal system of government and the restoration of the imperial...
- Japan underwent a vast array of changes after the Meiji Restoration. Among those were:
- The Meiji period that followed the Restoration was an era of major political, economic, and social change in Japan. The reforms enacted during the...
Sep 6, 2024 · Mount Fuji, highest mountain in Japan. It rises to 12,388 feet (3,776 metres) near the Pacific Ocean coast in Yamanashi and Shizuoka ken (prefectures) of central Honshu, about 60 miles (100 km) west of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area.
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1 day ago · When the bakufu, despite opposition from the throne in Kyōto, signed the Treaty of Kanagawa (or Perry Convention; 1854) and the Harris Treaty (1858), the shogun’s claim of loyalty to the throne and his role as “subduer of barbarians” came to be questioned.
