Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: N0572/Image of Japan
: 2006
: versi revisi
Pertemuan ke 11
Daerah Kantou
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Learning Outcomes
Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa
akan mampu :
• Mendemonstrasikan melalui presentasi
mengenai daerah geografis Kantou, Pref.
Tochigi,Ibaragi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba,
Tokyo dan Kanagawa
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The Kantō region (Japanese: 関東地方, Kantōchihō) is a geographical area of Honshū, the
largest island in Japan. The region
encompasses seven prefectures
aroundTokyo: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama,
Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa. Its boundaries are
roughly the same as those of the Kantō plain.
The plain itself, however, only makes up slightly
more than 40 percent of the region. The plain
itself, however, only makes up slightly more than
40 percent of the region. The rest consists of the
hills and mountains that border it except on the
seaward side.
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• The Kantō region is the most highly developed,
urbanized, and industrialized part of Japan.
Tokyo and Yokohama form a single industrial
complex with a concentration of light and heavy
industry along Tokyo Bay. Other major cities in
the area include Kawasaki (in Kanagawa
Prefecture); Saitama (in Saitama Prefecture);
and Chiba (in Chiba Prefecture). Smaller cities,
farther away from the coast, house substantial
light industry. The average population density
reached 1,192 persons per square kilometer in
1991.
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The heartland of feudal power during the Kamakura period and
again in the Edo period, the Kantō became the center of
modern development. Within the Greater Tokyo Area and
especially the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area, the Kantō
houses not only Japan's seat of government but also the
largest group of universities and cultural institutions, the.
Although most of the Kanto plain is used for residential,
greatest population, and a large industrial zone commercial, or
industrial construction, it is still farmed. Rice is the principal
crop, although the zone around Tokyo and Yokohama has been
landscaped to grow garden produce for the metropolitan market.
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A watershed moment of Japan's modern
history took place in the late Taisho
period: The Great Kantō earthquake of
1923. The quake, which claimed more
than 100,000 lives and ravaged the
Tokyo and Yokohama areas, occurred at
a time when Japan was still reeling from
the economic recession in reaction to
the high-flying years during World War I.
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