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| | HONSHU JAPAN |
 | | The population is 98,352,000 (as of 1990, in 1975 it was 89,101,702), concentrated in the available lowlands, notably in the Kanto plain where 25% of the total population reside in and around Tokyo and Yokohama. |
 | | Other cities include Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Sendai, and Nagoya. |
 | | Three-fourths of Japan's main, major, and modern cities are here on Honshu, including the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kyoto, Akita, Sendai, Fukushima, Niigata, and Hiroshima. |
| www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /travel/honshu.htm (440 words) |
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