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Seto Inland Sea

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The, also known as Setouchi or often shortened to Inland Sea, is the body of water separating Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, three of the four main islands of Japan. [1]

129 relations: Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, Akashi, Hyōgo, Aki Province, Awaji Island, Ayu, Ōita Prefecture, Ōmishima Island, Ehime, Battle of Yashima, Battle Royale (novel), Bungo Channel, Chūgoku region, China, Daimyō, Donald Richie, Edo, Edo period, Ehime Prefecture, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Finless porpoise, Fish migration, Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Geiyo Islands, Genpei War, Great Seto Bridge, Great white shark, Han system, Hashira Island, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hokkaido, Hokuriku region, Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project, Honshu, Horseshoe crab, Hyōgo Prefecture, Ice age, Imabari, Ehime, Imperial Japanese Navy, Innoshima, Hiroshima, International Hydrographic Organization, Itsukushima, Itsukushima Shrine, Iwakuni, Iyo Province, Japan, Japan National Tourism Organization, Japanese National Railways, Kagawa Prefecture, ..., Kanmon Straits, Kansai region, Kasaoka Islands, Kii Channel, Kobayakawa clan, Kobe, Kojiki, Koku, Korea, Kotohira, Kagawa, Koushun Takami, Kurashiki, Kure, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kyushu, Lucille Carra, Man'yōshū, Matsuyama, Ehime, Mōri clan, Meiji Restoration, Nankaidō, Naoshima, Kagawa, Naruto Strait, Naruto whirlpools, Nihon Shoki, Niihama, Ehime, Nishiseto Expressway, Nuclear weapon, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Osaka, Osaka Bay, Osaka Prefecture, Pacific Ocean, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Phytoplankton, Port of Takamatsu, Red tide, Sakai, Sakaide, Kagawa, San'yō Main Line, San'yōdō, Sankin-kōtai, Sea, Sea level, Sea of Japan, Setonaikai National Park, Setouchi Region, Shōdoshima, Shikoku, Shikoku Railway Company, Shiwaku Islands, Song dynasty, Steel, Strait, Suō-Ōshima, Taira no Kiyomori, Takamatsu Station (Kagawa), Takamatsu, Kagawa, Tamano, Tōhoku region, The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, Thomas Cook, Tokushima Prefecture, Tokushima, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tomonoura, Ube, Yamaguchi, UNESCO, Waka (poetry), Wakayama Prefecture, Waterway, Whale, Whaling, World Heritage site, World War II, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Yosan Line. Expand index (79 more) »

Akashi Kaikyō Bridge

The is a suspension bridge, which links the city of Kobe on the Japanese mainland of Honshu to Iwaya on Awaji Island.

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Akashi, Hyōgo

is a city located in southern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on the Seto Inland Sea west of Kobe.

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Aki Province

or Geishū (芸州) was a province in the Chūgoku Region of western Honshū, comprising the western part of what is today Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Awaji Island

is an island in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea between the islands of Honshū and Shikoku.

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Ayu

The or sweetfish, Plecoglossus altivelis, is a species of fish.

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Ōita Prefecture

is a prefecture on Kyushu region of Japan.

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Ōmishima Island, Ehime

is the westernmost and largest island in Geiyo Islands chain accommodating Nishiseto Expressway connecting Honshu and Shikoku islands.

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Battle of Yashima

The naval Battle of Yashima took place on March 22, 1185.

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Battle Royale (novel)

is the first novel by the Japanese author Koushun Takami.

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Bungo Channel

The is a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku.

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Chūgoku region

The, also known as the, is the westernmost region of Honshū, the largest island of Japan.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Daimyō

The were powerful Japanese feudal lords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.

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Donald Richie

Donald Richie (17 April 1924 – 19 February 2013) was an American-born author who wrote about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema.

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Edo

, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Ehime Prefecture

is a prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan.

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Ferdinand von Richthofen

Baron Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen FRSFor HFRSE BGS (5 May 18336 October 1905), better known in English as was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.

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Finless porpoise

The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), or finless porpoise, is one of seven porpoise species.

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Fish migration

Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousands of kilometres.

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Fukuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan on Kyūshū Island.

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Fukuyama, Hiroshima

is a city located on the Ashida River in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Geiyo Islands

The are a group of islands in the Seto Inland Sea of Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Genpei War

The (1180–1185) was a conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Japan.

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Great Seto Bridge

The is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea.

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Great white shark

The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), commonly known as the great white or the white shark, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.

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Han system

The or domain is the Japanese historical term for the estate of a warrior after the 12th century or of a daimyō in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912).

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Hashira Island

is an island in southern Hiroshima Bay of the Inland Sea, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

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Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima

is a city of some 120,000 people located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu - the largest island of Japan.

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Hiroshima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshu island.

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Hokkaido

(), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture.

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Hokuriku region

The was located in the northwestern part of Honshu, the main island of Japan.

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Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project

The Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project is a system of bridges connecting the islands of Honshu and Shikoku across the Inland Sea of Japan, which were previously only connected by ferry.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Horseshoe crab

Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the family Limulidae, suborder Xiphosurida, and order Xiphosura.

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Hyōgo Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshu island.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Imabari, Ehime

is a city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

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Imperial Japanese Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II.

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Innoshima, Hiroshima

was a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

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International Hydrographic Organization

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is the inter-governmental organisation representing hydrography.

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Itsukushima

is an island in the western part of the Inland Sea of Japan, located in the northwest of Hiroshima Bay.

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Itsukushima Shrine

is a Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its "floating" torii gate.

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Iwakuni

is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

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Iyo Province

was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan National Tourism Organization

The, JNTO, provides information about Japan to promote travel to and in the country.

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Japanese National Railways

, abbreviated or "JNR", was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.

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Kagawa Prefecture

is the smallest prefecture of Japan (by area).

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Kanmon Straits

The or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands.

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Kansai region

The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū.

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Kasaoka Islands

The are a group of 31 islands in the Seto Inland Sea of Okayama Prefecture.

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Kii Channel

The, also called the Kii Strait, is a strait separating the Japanese island of Shikoku from the Kii Peninsula on the main island of Honshū.

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Kobayakawa clan

The was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Taira clan.

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Kobe

is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Kojiki

, also sometimes read as Furukotofumi, is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Genmei with the purpose of sanctifying the imperial court's claims to supremacy over rival clans.

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Koku

The is a Japanese unit of volume, equal to ten cubic shaku.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Kotohira, Kagawa

is a town located in Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Koushun Takami

is a Japanese author and journalist.

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Kurashiki

is an historic city located in western Okayama Prefecture, Japan, sitting on the Takahashi River, on the coast of the Inland Sea.

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Kure, Hiroshima

is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Kyushu

is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.

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Lucille Carra

Lucille Carra (born New York City) is an American documentary film director, producer, and writer.

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Man'yōshū

The is the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.

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Matsuyama, Ehime

is the capital city of Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan and also Shikoku's largest city, with a population of 516,459 as of December 1, 2014.

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Mōri clan

The Mōri clan (毛利氏 Mōri-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan descended from Ōe no Hiromoto.

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Meiji Restoration

The, also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

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Nankaidō

is a Japanese geographical term.

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Naoshima, Kagawa

is an island town administratively part of Kagawa District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan located in the Seto Inland Sea.

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Naruto Strait

is a strait between Awaji Island and Shikoku in Japan.

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Naruto whirlpools

The are tidal whirlpools in the Naruto Strait, a channel between Naruto in Tokushima and Awaji Island in Hyōgo, Japan.

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Nihon Shoki

The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.

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Niihama, Ehime

is a city located in the eastern part of Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

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Nishiseto Expressway

The, often called the is an expressway in Japan that connects Onomichi, Hiroshima and Imabari, Ehime, going through nine of the Geiyo Islands, including Ōshima, Umashima, and Innoshima.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Okayama

is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan.

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Okayama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main island of Honshu.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Osaka Bay

Osaka Bay (大阪湾 Ōsaka-wan) is a bay in western Japan.

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Osaka Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Kansai region on Honshu, the main island of Japan.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Philipp Franz von Siebold

Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (17 February 1796 – 18 October 1866) was a German physician, botanist, and traveler.

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Phytoplankton

Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of oceans, seas and freshwater basin ecosystems.

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Port of Takamatsu

The is a seaport in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Red tide

Red tide is a common name for a worldwide phenomenon known as an algal bloom (large concentrations of aquatic microorganisms—protozoans or unicellular algae) when it is caused by species of dinoflagellates and other organisms.

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Sakai

is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan on the edge of Osaka Bay at the mouth of the Yamato River.

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Sakaide, Kagawa

is a city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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San'yō Main Line

The is major railway line owned by JR Group companies in western Japan, connecting Kobe Station and Moji Station, largely paralleling the coast of the Inland Sea, in other words the southern coast of western Honshu.

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San'yōdō

is a Japanese geographical term.

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Sankin-kōtai

was a policy of the Tokugawa shogunate during most of the Edo period of Japanese history.

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Sea

A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan (see below for other names) is a marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula and Russia.

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Setonaikai National Park

is a national park comprising areas of Japan's Inland Sea and of ten bordering prefectures.

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Setouchi Region

The, or simply Setouchi, is a geographic region of Japan.

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Shōdoshima

is an island located in the Inland Sea of Japan.

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Shikoku

is the smallest (long and between wide) and least populous (3.8 million) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu.

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Shikoku Railway Company

, commonly known as, is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group).

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Shiwaku Islands

The or form an archipelago in the Japanese Inland Sea.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Strait

A strait is a naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water.

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Suō-Ōshima

is a town and an island located in Ōshima District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

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Taira no Kiyomori

was a military leader of the late Heian period of Japan.

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Takamatsu Station (Kagawa)

is a railway station on the Yosan and Kōtoku lines in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. It is operated by Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku). The station is the terminus of the Yosan Line and the Kōtoku Line.

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Takamatsu, Kagawa

is a city located in central Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan, and is the capital city of the prefectural government.

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Tamano

is a city located in southern Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

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Tōhoku region

The, Northeast region, or Northeast Japan consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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The Tale of Genji

is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century.

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The Tale of the Heike

is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180–1185).

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Thomas Cook

Thomas Cook (22 November 1808 – 18 July 1892) was an English businessman.

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Tokushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island.

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Tokushima, Tokushima

is the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku island in Japan.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Tomonoura

, formerly known as, is a port in the Ichichi ward of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Ube, Yamaguchi

is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan on the Seto Inland Sea.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Waka (poetry)

is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature.

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Wakayama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshū island.

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Waterway

A waterway is any navigable body of water.

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Whale

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.

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Whaling

Whaling is the hunting of whales for scientific research and their usable products like meat, oil and blubber.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yamaguchi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan in the Chūgoku region of the main island of Honshu.

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Yosan Line

The is the principal railway line on the island of Shikoku in Japan, connecting the major cities of Shikoku, and via the Honshi-Bisan Line, with Honshu.

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Aki Nada, Hiro Bay, Hiro Wan, Inland Sea of Japan, Iyo Nada, Iyo-nada, Seto Nakai, Seto Sea, Seto inland sea, Seto-naikai, Setonaikai, Setouch Sea, Setouche Sea, Setouchi Sea, Suonada, 瀬戸内海.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seto_Inland_Sea

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