Tokyo and the Kanto Plains

[kristopher]

The Kantō region is a geographical area of Honshū, the largest island of Japan. The region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa. Within its boundaries, slightly more than 40 percent of the land area is the Kantō Plain. The rest consists of the hills and mountains that form the land borders.

In official intercensal estimates for prefectures that are released every October by the Japan Statistics Bureau, the population was 42,053,000,<1> amounting to approximately one third of the total population of Japan.

Fukushima is just a bit off the map at the top on the coast.

My late wife's father's family has a farm in the middle of those rivers in Ibaraki that they have lived on for almost 30 generations.

My brother-in-law and many, many friends live near the red line running through the pink divides Tokyo from Saitama.

My current wife's parents and her sisters family of 4 are right about where the star marks Tokyo. They've lived there since the 1800s.

42 million people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mapofkanto.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region

[LAGC]

1. I wish your family well.

Hopefully they won't have to be displaced for too much longer.