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  2. List of Japanese prefectural name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Prefecture Kanji origin and meaning of name Aichi 愛知県: Aichi-ken (愛知県) means "love knowledge". In the third volume of the Man'yōshū there is a poem by Takechi Kurohito that reads: "The cry of the crane, calling to Sakurada; it sounds like the tide, draining from Ayuchi flats, hearing the crane cry".

  3. Miyagi (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Miyagi (written: 宮城 lit. "shrine fortress") is a Japanese surname. It can be read as Miyashiro , or Naagusuku in the Ryukyu Islands . Notable people with the surname include:

  4. Okinawan name - Wikipedia

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    Okinawan last name Hanko seals in Tsurumi Okinawa Street. Okinawan names (Okinawan: 名 / なー, nā) today have only two components, the family names (surnames or last names) first and the given names last. Okinawan family names represent the distinct historical and cultural background of the islands which now comprise Okinawa Prefecture in ...

  5. Prefectures of Japan - Wikipedia

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    43 of the 47 prefectures are referred to as ken (県, pronounced when a separate word but when part of the full name of a prefecture, e.g. and become [aitɕi̥ꜜkeɴ]). The Classical Chinese character from which this is derived carries a rural or provincial connotation, and an analogous character is used to refer to the counties of China ...

  6. Names of Okinawa - Wikipedia

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    Okinawa Island. Okinawa (沖縄) is a name with multiple referents. The endonym refers to Okinawa Island in southwestern Japan.Today it can cover some surrounding islands (i.e., Okinawa Islands) and, more importantly, can refer to Okinawa Prefecture, a much larger administrative division of Japan, although the people from the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands still feel a strong sense of otherness to ...

  7. List of Yakuza syndicates - Wikipedia

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    Name Japanese Name Headquarters Reg. in Notes Yamaguchi-gumi VI : 六代目山口組 : Kobe, Hyogo: 1992 It was founded in 1915 and split from the Oshima-gumi in 1932.. Yamaguchi is the surname of the founder and first boss and kumi or gumi means group.

  8. Meibukan - Wikipedia

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    The Meibukan crest is the kanji "mei," which is the first kanji in the first names of Yagi and his two sons. Meitatsu’s two sons, Akihito and Akihiro also share the kanji. The following are three interpretations of the crest. The kanji mei is a combination of the kanji for sun and the kanji for moon.

  9. Miyagi Prefecture - Wikipedia

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    Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県, Miyagi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. [2] Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,265,724 (1 August 2023) and has a geographic area of 7,282 km 2 (2,812 sq mi).