A map of Japan’s regions, colorized. Roughly from left to right: gray is Kyūshū (includes Okinawa, which is far to the south of Kyūshū proper), orange is Chūgoku, purple is Shikoku, blue is Kansai, cyan is Chūbu, green is Kantō, yellow is Tōhoku, red is Hokkaidō. Source: Niigata_in_Japan.svg: TUBSderivative file: Furfur, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Japanese archipelago as seen from satellite. Public Domain.
