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Regions of Japan color-coded as follows from north (top) to south.

• Hokkaido - White (including Russian-occupied Northern Territories)
• Tohoku - Orange: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata Prefectures.
• Kanto - Yellow: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa Prefectures.
• Chubu - Green (Hokuriku in light green [Fukui, Ishikawa, Toyama, and Niigata Prefectures], Tokai [Shizuoka and Aichi Prefectures] in dark green)
• Kinki/Kansai - Pink (main Kinki area in light pink [Nara, Wakayama, Mie, and Shiga Prefectures], main Kansai area in dark pink [Kyoto, Osaka, and Hyogo Prefectures])
• Chugoku - Blue (San'in in dark blue [Part of Kyoto, Tottori, Shimane, and part of Yamaguchi Prefectures], San'yo in light blue [Okayama, Hiroshima, and Yamaguchi Prefectures])
• Shikoku - Aqua: Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi, and Tokushima Prefectures.
• Kyushu - Gray: Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Miyazaki, and Oita Prefectures. Okinawa - Red: Includes all the islands (not all shown).