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Shikoku is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is 225 kilometres long and between 50 and 150 kilometres wide. It has a population of 3.5 million, the least of Japan's four main islands.
Mount Ishizuchi is the highest mountain in Shikoku.
Cape Ashizuri is at the southernmost tip of Shikoku.
Shimanto River
Seto Inland Sea
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Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered to the west by the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk in the north, an
Shikoku
…Shikoku (四国, Shikoku; pronounced , lit. 'four provinces') is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is 225 kilometres (140 miles) long and between 50 and 150 kilometres (30 and 95 miles) wide. It has a population of 3.5 million, the least of Japan's…
Legendary Emperor Jimmu (神武天皇, Jinmu-tennō)
Japanese samurai boarding a Mongol vessel during the Mongol invasions of Japan, depicted in the Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, 1293
Three unifiers of Japan. Left to right: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji-tennō); 1852–1912