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    San'yō Region (山陽地方 San'yō-chihō) is an area in the south of Honshū, the main island of Japan. It consists of the southern part of the Chūgoku region, facing...
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    Region (山陰地方, San'in Chihō) is an area in the southwest of Honshū, the main island of Japan. It consists of the northern part of the Chūgoku region,...
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    Shikoku dialect (category Shikoku region)
    similar to Kansai dialect, but Chūgoku dialect uses a Tokyo-type accent. The differences between zi and di and between zu and du, which have been lost in standard...
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    member of the clan. Expanded the clan's power to nearly all of the Chūgoku region. Mōri Takamoto (毛利隆元, 1523–1563), became head of the clan when his father...
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    largest city in Yamaguchi Prefecture and the fifth-largest city in the Chūgoku region in terms of population. It is nicknamed the "Fugu Capital" for the locally...
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    marriage". In several parts of Japan, such as Kantō region, Chūbu region, Kansai region, Chūgoku region, Shikoku, and Kyushu, sunshowers are called "kitsune...
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    groups: inside (Kansai, Shikoku, etc.), middle (Western Kantō, Chūbu, Chūgoku, etc.) and outside (Eastern Kantō, Tōhoku, Izumo, Kyushu, Hachijō, etc...
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    of Abu, Hagi, and Nagato. The San'yodo subregion is a subregion of Chūgoku region and is composed of the prefectures of Hiroshima, Okayama, and Yamaguchi...
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    and the reenactment of folktales. Originally quite popular in the Chūgoku region, near Izumo, these dances have spread across the country, and have developed...
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    the dried milt and herring for fertilizer headed particularly to the Chūgoku region provinces and Ōmi Province. The kazunoko was all part of the fertilizer...
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