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Capital: Tokyo
Area: 145,877 sq. miles
Population: 127,086,000 (2002 estimate)
Language: The official language is Japanese.
Religion(s):
About 84% of the Japanese people follow a combination of Buddhism and Japan’s indigenous religion, Shinto; followers of other religions total 16% of the population.
Ethnic Group(s):
Japanese - 99.4%; other (mostly Korean) - 0.6% (source E-thologies.com)
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Capital: Yamaguchi City
Population: Approximately 1,555,500
Location:
Located in westernmost part of the main island of Honshu, Yamaguchi shares a border with Shimane and Hiroshima prefectures in the east and is surrounded on the other three sides by the sea, The Japan Sea in the north and west and the Seto Inland Sea to the south. Yamaguchi and the island of Kyushu are connected by both a bridge and a tunnel from Shimonoseki.
Political Structure:
There are 14 cities, 37 towns and 5 villages in Yamaguchi.
Principal Cities:
Shimonoseki, Iwakuni, Tokuyama, Ube, Hagi
Topography and Climate:
Primarily mountainous or coastal terrain spanning just over 6106.79km2 makes Yamaguchi a comfortable sized ken (23rd largest in Japan).
Yamaguchi has a reputation of being a very comfortable place to live in Japan. It has a mild climate that is tempered by the sea, and it is not very seismically active. In spite of being in a highly developed island nation, nature and agriculture abounds in the ken. Yamaguchi balances well between its multiple roles as a major industrial and technological region, an internationaland international crossroads, and a rural, agricultural, and natural haven.
Points of Interest:
Yamaguchi Ken is famous across Japan for Fugu (puffer fish) cuisine, the Kintaikyo bridge in Iwakuni, Hagiyaki pottery, Ouchi-nuri lacquerware & Ouchi family dolls. It is also the former seat of the powerful Ouchi feudal family, and the Meiji restoration movement.