How Did The Islands & Regions Of Japan Get Their Names?

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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
List Of Island Countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Regions On Japan: www.japan-guide.com/list/e100...
How Many Islands Make Up Japan?: www.quora.com/How-many-island...
The Four Islands Of Japan: www.thoughtco.com/four-primar...
Hokkaido: www.japantimes.co.jp/news/201...
Shikoku: www.lonelyplanet.com/japan/sh...
Kyushu: www.britannica.com/place/Kyus...
Cape Definition: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
Ryukyuan: www.storyhouse.org/susanf.html
Naha: yabai.com/p/2858
Honshu: www.names.org/n/honshu/about
Tohoku: www.japan-guide.com/list/e110...
Kanto & Kansai: www.tsunagujapan.com/differen...
Chubu: www.japan-guide.com/list/e110...
Chugoku: www.japan-guide.com/list/e110...

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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain4 жыл бұрын

    Recommend some anime with, err, good plots.

  • @ahamzah

    @ahamzah

    4 жыл бұрын

    Demon slayer

  • @SouthernGothicYT

    @SouthernGothicYT

    4 жыл бұрын

    Puella Magi Madoka Magica

  • @Aprill264

    @Aprill264

    4 жыл бұрын

    eromanga sensei

  • @KomodoMagic

    @KomodoMagic

    4 жыл бұрын

    JoJo Bizarre Adventure & Transformer Cybertron Trilogy

  • @reynanhenry612

    @reynanhenry612

    4 жыл бұрын

    Action: Phsyco pass Darwin's game Guilty crown SAO (1st season) Kimetsu no yaiba Romance : Kimi no nawa Hello world Your lies in april I want to eat your pancreas Koe no katachi

  • @TheIlustrado
    @TheIlustrado4 жыл бұрын

    "Kyūshū" is pronounced like "Queue - Shoe" "Ryūkyū" is "Ryu (like the guy in the Street Fighter) - Queue". Dunno where the dragon etymology came from as the Kanji for the region (琉球) literally means "Precious Stone Ball". Fun Fact: Most Pokemon regions are based on Japan's regions, hence the Kanto reference. Chūgoku has the same Kanji for the name China, i.e. 中国 Japan had an ancient system of naming their areas: the "Five Provinces and Seven Circuits". And when Hokkaido was introduced, it became "Five Provinces and Eight Circuits". The most famous of these is Tokaido now usually seen in railway lines like the Tokaido Shinkansen. Tip: this was explained by a YTer who's kinda inactive nowadays kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKNtq62Bic-5d7Q.html

  • @TheIvoryDingo

    @TheIvoryDingo

    4 жыл бұрын

    Technically only half of the Pokemon regions are based on Japan's regions (generations 1-4) as the more recent Pokemon games have regions based on other parts of the world. - Gen 5's Unova is based on New York City. - Gen 6's Kalos is based on France. - Gen 7's Alola is based on Hawaii. - Gen 8's Galar (which is the most recent) is based on the UK.

  • @daisybrain9423

    @daisybrain9423

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget the region of Shoo-Boo!

  • @masonreed6845

    @masonreed6845

    4 жыл бұрын

    precious stone ball could refer to the precious stone balls dragons often hold in folklore

  • @mikeybpotts3915

    @mikeybpotts3915

    3 жыл бұрын

    Came to the comments to ask about Chūgoku, because I had learned that that was the Japanese word for China. Thanks for confirming!

  • @meanshape101

    @meanshape101

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pokémon regions which based on Japanese regions: 1. Kanto - Just Kanto. 2. Johto - The Kansai region 3. Hoenn - The Kyushu region 4. Sinnoh - The Hokkaido region

  • @CGaboL
    @CGaboL4 жыл бұрын

    Kanto = Kanto Part of Chubu = Johto Kyushu = Hoenn (rotated) Hokkaido = Sinnoh That'd be pretty common knowledge for Pokémon players

  • @ppaaccoojrf

    @ppaaccoojrf

    4 жыл бұрын

    Johto is the western part of Chubu, plus Kansai and the Eastern part of Shikoku.

  • @chimefloon-w-4146
    @chimefloon-w-41464 жыл бұрын

    imagine pronouncing "Kyushu" like "Jyushu"

  • @luxshokk

    @luxshokk

    4 жыл бұрын

    That would mean they gained a province.

  • @tollutollu

    @tollutollu

    4 жыл бұрын

    surprised so many people are talkin about this, this fellas pronunciation is always off kilter

  • @jonnathan1869

    @jonnathan1869

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tollutollu I mean, he literally pronounced the K as a J tho 💀

  • @meetaverma8372

    @meetaverma8372

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@luxshokk only people who speak Japanese would understand

  • @elementballs

    @elementballs

    4 жыл бұрын

    ju is ten kyu is nine

  • @Patroclus27
    @Patroclus274 жыл бұрын

    Region starts with the letter K NameExplain... JOOSHOO

  • @nonomen6665

    @nonomen6665

    4 жыл бұрын

    The wikipedia article even gives a pronunciation audio so I don't know what happened there.

  • @lewatoaofair2522

    @lewatoaofair2522

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jerald Evans I’ve frequently criticized Patrick’s pronunciations across his content, but THIS is one of the worst.

  • @Patroclus27

    @Patroclus27

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not to mention, he pronounced CHUGOKU as SHUGOKU

  • @rtswift

    @rtswift

    4 жыл бұрын

    "don't you know its named that because of all the jewish people on that island"

  • @LangThoughts

    @LangThoughts

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jushu would mean "ten provinces"

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache4 жыл бұрын

    8:01 That demonetization joke was golden

  • @Onibushou

    @Onibushou

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kinki University (近畿大学) changed its name to Kindai in 2016, just to avoid jokes like that.

  • @theonebman7581

    @theonebman7581

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kinki ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) --im sorry i hate these jokes but someone had to pwease dont hate :3--

  • @theepicosity
    @theepicosity4 жыл бұрын

    i see japan has taken on the australian method of province naming

  • @Ggdivhjkjl

    @Ggdivhjkjl

    4 жыл бұрын

    At least we dropped the latter part of "The Northern Territory of South Australia". Whoever thought that made sense anyway?

  • @nicholasnelson7365

    @nicholasnelson7365

    4 жыл бұрын

    Except region isn't the first-level administrative division.Instead,prefecture is the equivalent of province or state.

  • @mlgdigimon

    @mlgdigimon

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ggdivhjkjl did you smash your keyboard to get that name

  • @nicholasnelson7365

    @nicholasnelson7365

    4 жыл бұрын

    And region is not geopolitical.It is just combination of geopolitical prefectures

  • @nicholasnelson7365

    @nicholasnelson7365

    4 жыл бұрын

    although Hokkaido is an island,region and its own prefecture

  • @antiskill2012
    @antiskill20124 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Osaka used to be much smaller until they started moving dirt to fill in the bay. Perhaps it was more hilly before that? In fact, neighborhoods like Umeda are 100% man-made. Umeda is written as 梅田 (plum field), but it was originally 埋田 (filled-in field) which is pronounced exactly the same. However, that sense of "fill in" also has the connotation of "burial." They probably changed it to something more pleasant so the area wouldn't seem like one big graveyard. On a similar note, Kyoto's Toribeno neighborhood actually WAS one big graveyard and its name reflects that. In early times, it was common to leave dead bodies out in the open to be picked apart by birds, hence the name Toribeno essentially meaning "land where birds are." It eventually become a fairly normal residential area, albeit one with a lot of ghost stories. One block is called Rokuro-cho 轆轤町 (potter's wheel town), which seems confusing since there's no connection to pottery. Apparently it used to be Dokuro-cho 髑髏町 (skull town), but they changed it to improve their image. One old temple in Rokuro-cho is famous for performing funeral rites on the bodies left out in the open, while another supposedly has a portal to hell in their garden.

  • @kevinmbtbass
    @kevinmbtbass4 жыл бұрын

    'Chugoku' is also the Japanese word for China if things weren't confusing before

  • @nicholasnelson7365

    @nicholasnelson7365

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's what comes to mind when I heard the word Chugoku in this video

  • @shibonotenshi

    @shibonotenshi

    4 жыл бұрын

    And that's the meaning of China's name (central land/country)

  • @nicholasnelson7365

    @nicholasnelson7365

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@shibonotenshi 中国

  • @meribor

    @meribor

    3 жыл бұрын

    More accurately in romaji, it's "Chūgoku" The "u" sound is elongated

  • @globetrekker86

    @globetrekker86

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Kevinmbt: And yet, Name Explain renders it as “Shoo-goku”

  • @LodiJP
    @LodiJP4 жыл бұрын

    almost nobody in Japan knows this, but your etymology of Hokkaidoo isn't correct. The KAI originally didn't mean 'sea', but rather 'ainu land'; a word that one of the earlier discoverers gave to it. the Japanese government later changed the spelling of KAI to fit the meaning of 'sea'. So the actual meaning was "the way to the northern ainu lands" . It was written as 北加伊道

  • @daisybrain9423

    @daisybrain9423

    4 жыл бұрын

    So how was the "kai" part spelt before?

  • @LodiJP

    @LodiJP

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@daisybrain9423 the japanese government spelled it as 北加伊道 back then; but the 加伊 part was simply an Ateji, since the original Ainu-wod Kai/Kay wasn't meant to be written in kanji.

  • @daisybrain9423

    @daisybrain9423

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@LodiJP Interesting, thanks for the reply!

  • @RyszardPoster27
    @RyszardPoster274 жыл бұрын

    7:18 I'm at the moment living in Sendai, so I thought I could comment on that. It is called the City of Trees, but tbh nowadays it's mostly made of concrete. And it's weird you haven't found the etymology of the name as it is written in bold letters on Wikipedia. "At this time Sendai was written as 千代 ("a thousand generations"), because a temple with a thousand Buddha statues (千体, sentai) used to be located in Aobayama. Masamune changed the kanji to "仙臺", which later became "仙台" (literally: "hermit/wizard" plus "platform/plateau" or more figuratively, "hermit on a platform/high ground"). The character came from a Chinese poem that praised a palace created by the Emperor Wen of Han China (reigned 180-157 BCE), comparing it to a mythical palace in the Kunlun Mountains. Tradition says that Masamune chose this kanji so that the castle would prosper as long as a mountain inhabited by an immortal hermit." From Wikipedia

  • @Ggdivhjkjl

    @Ggdivhjkjl

    4 жыл бұрын

    So sorry about the trees😔

  • @keithkyli

    @keithkyli

    4 жыл бұрын

    The meaning of 仙 is actually closer to "fairy". Sendai = Fairy Terrace

  • @RyszardPoster27

    @RyszardPoster27

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@keithkyli In japanese it means mainly a hermit. In chinese it can have a meaning of a fairy, but generally not in japanese. Japanese for fairy is 妖精

  • @guspolly
    @guspolly4 жыл бұрын

    "Zhu-shu"?

  • @sunglassshinpan1352

    @sunglassshinpan1352

    4 жыл бұрын

    The "Zhus" own that, too; don't ya know!

  • @12SPASTIC12

    @12SPASTIC12

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think he got his languages confused. He seems to be attempting the Mandarin word for nine (jiǔ) rather than the Japanese word. EDIT: I've now heard reeookoo, shubu, fuzhi and shugoku. I think he's just bad at pronouncing things.

  • @TheECSH
    @TheECSH4 жыл бұрын

    i grew up in Taiwan, and it was only until my teenage years that I found out a lot of the place names in Taiwan also came from Japanese (i.e. 松山, 清水, 桃園, 岡山, 板橋...etc.), which would make sense given the history. I just didn't realize, and my mind was blown.

  • @Dragonite_Tom

    @Dragonite_Tom

    4 жыл бұрын

    Colonialism obviously

  • @Miguelitojones1

    @Miguelitojones1

    4 жыл бұрын

    When you said "桃園" I felt that

  • @Dragonite_Tom

    @Dragonite_Tom

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Miguelitojones1 it literally means "Peach Garden"

  • @The0Stroy

    @The0Stroy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Formosa...

  • @Miguelitojones1

    @Miguelitojones1

    4 жыл бұрын

    The0Stroy Aí é português kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

  • @edwardsimpson119
    @edwardsimpson1194 жыл бұрын

    Why do you pronounce Kyushu with a J sound, but the Ky in Kyoto correctly?

  • @KingsleyIII
    @KingsleyIII4 жыл бұрын

    Skip to 2:31 for how the islands and regions of Japan got their names.

  • @TomKellyXY
    @TomKellyXY4 жыл бұрын

    I’ve lived in 仙台 (Sendai), 川崎 (Kawasaki), and 横浜 (Yokohama). Sendai was founded by Daimyō (Lord) Date Masamune as his base of operations to govern the region in 1600. It used to be written as 仙臺 and was later simplified (this is the same character as 台北 Taipei and 台湾Taiwan). Nagasaki and Kawasaki are both named for peninsulas (kawa means river). Regions of Japan are informal grouping like the The South or Midwest in the US. The formal divisions are the 47 都道府県 (prefectures), each has a capital city and its own flag.

  • @pauladambarral5039
    @pauladambarral50394 жыл бұрын

    Most people in the chugoku region called it san'in san'yo region to avoid confusion

  • @lucask4398
    @lucask43984 жыл бұрын

    "Ezo ... 'Land of barbarians' because it was so untamed" And maybe because the Japanese viewed the Ainu as barbarians. Although, yeah, you could call that "untamed" as well.

  • @theonebman7581

    @theonebman7581

    4 жыл бұрын

    What version of barbarian tho Since the original term kinda just meant "those that didn't speak our language"

  • @MatesMonchis

    @MatesMonchis

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's not very clear at all to me where he got Ezo = land of barbarians. The meaning of the first kanji is shrimp. Shrimp-Barbarian. Can't seem to find an etymology but suffice to say, neither the contemporary or the original meaning of the term barbarian is applicable to the term that Japanese used for the Ainu people in 1000CE.

  • @justarandomsovietofficerwi2023
    @justarandomsovietofficerwi20234 жыл бұрын

    Each island has it's own railway company, yet they share two letters. JR. Formerly, JNR controlled all Japanese rail bhut after the privatization of some parts, it was split altogether.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican4 жыл бұрын

    Hokkaido is my favorite of the main islands. So nice during the winter and fall. They have a festival in Sapporo during the winter with awesome ice sculptures. Anime wise, I like Speed Racer, Jojo, Fist of the North Star, Hetalia, and Pokémon

  • @MariOmor1

    @MariOmor1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Sinnoh from Diamond and Pearl is based off Hokkaido.

  • @Sandra.Molchanova
    @Sandra.Molchanova4 жыл бұрын

    For Chugoku, the Japanese Wikipedia says that it might be a leftover name from the times when all regions were classified depending on how far away they were from the capital. Apparently the closest regions were called 'the near countries', the farthest were called 'the far countries', while the Chugoku regions were somewhere in between, hence they were the 'middle countries' 🤨

  • @uekiguy5886
    @uekiguy58864 жыл бұрын

    8:20 -- BTW, this map is upside down.

  • @mohdadeeb1829

    @mohdadeeb1829

    4 жыл бұрын

    You Japanese .

  • @hmr0470

    @hmr0470

    4 жыл бұрын

    No wonder it looked weird. Even the kanji is upside down and I've yet to realize so until I came across this comment.

  • @Figgy5119
    @Figgy51194 жыл бұрын

    In regards to Chugoku, the early Japanese settlement was from Kyushu up to the border of Kanto and Tohoku. At that time, the Chugoku region would have been the central region of Japan.

  • @rotomfan63
    @rotomfan634 жыл бұрын

    "Means hermit and stand" Joseph Joestar noises

  • @tetsu1000

    @tetsu1000

    3 жыл бұрын

    oddly enough Sendai is the birthplace of Araki Hirohiko and the model of Morioh!

  • @Dragonite_Tom
    @Dragonite_Tom4 жыл бұрын

    You literally didn't mention Nagoya in Chubu

  • @sunglassdubsteps5268

    @sunglassdubsteps5268

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm upset about that

  • @nafslee

    @nafslee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Everyone forgets about Nagoya - even tourists

  • @Baton4iik

    @Baton4iik

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nafslee Nagoya Skip ^^

  • @Figgy5119
    @Figgy51194 жыл бұрын

    In regards to Sendai, from Wikipedia: [In the 1600s] Sendai was written as 千代 ("a thousand generations"), because a temple with a thousand Buddha statues (千体, sentai) used to be located in Aobayama. Masamune changed the kanji to "仙臺", which later became "仙台" (literally: "hermit/wizard" plus "platform/plateau" or more figuratively, "hermit on a platform/high ground"). The character came from a Chinese poem that praised a palace created by the Emperor Wen of Han China (reigned 180-157 BCE), comparing it to a mythical palace in the Kunlun Mountains. Tradition says that Masamune chose this kanji so that the castle would prosper as long as a mountain inhabited by an immortal hermit.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache4 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on the Crunchyroll sponsorship and secondly, I'm really intrigued about this. Please do more content about Japan in the future.

  • @petergriffin7908

    @petergriffin7908

    4 жыл бұрын

    Like Hentai?

  • @thelastremainingmoderate1997
    @thelastremainingmoderate19974 жыл бұрын

    In addition to the beer, Sapporo is also famous as the host of the 1972 Winter Olympics.

  • @nicholasnelson7365
    @nicholasnelson73654 жыл бұрын

    Chugoku also means 'China' in Japanese

  • @bigpapadrew
    @bigpapadrew4 жыл бұрын

    i'm just commenting to say i'm glad many others have corrected your pronunciation already. romaji is meant to be literal!!!!

  • @eastpavilion-er6081
    @eastpavilion-er60814 жыл бұрын

    Most of the Japanese place names is very straightforward when translated to Chinese. Shikoku, for example, is translated to “四国” which literally means four countries/regions.

  • @Pedrosa2541
    @Pedrosa25414 жыл бұрын

    I think you would make huge success if you would do a video explaining the ethimological/cultural origins of the most common names. Things like Alexander, who came from Macedon, "the protector of man".

  • @nicholasnelson7365

    @nicholasnelson7365

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Macedonia is Slavic"

  • @shintarotakagi2440
    @shintarotakagi24404 жыл бұрын

    I am a Japanese student who lives in Tokyo. And I really enjoyed watching this video. I have learned something new. I thought about this but the names in Japan is based on the Chinese Characters/kanji. So I am interested to know how the other areas of the world got there name which uses the Chinese Characters. I don't know about this but isn't weird to translate the Chinese Characters individually into English words. Like the kanjis 北海道 into northern sea road. Is it only my who thinks about this? Enjoy your day I guess. ;P

  • @chrisw5852

    @chrisw5852

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fuck China. Japan should get rid of Chinese characters in their language to distance themselves from the facist state.

  • @bocbinsgames6745

    @bocbinsgames6745

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@chrisw5852 I'm sure you also loathe, hate, want to eradicate Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau too. Ethnicity and culture aren't the same as a government you utter bint

  • @dantdma932

    @dantdma932

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@chrisw5852 ok lets be honest, China won't be bad if it's government wasn't bad

  • @dantdma932

    @dantdma932

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@chrisw5852 so don't reticule China reticule it's government

  • @martinhorvath4117

    @martinhorvath4117

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dantdma932 bitch, you know that European Colonialism made China into what it is today? We literally fucked their country, twice, then forced shit on them, fucked their country again, broke out many civil wars, we lent the Communist Manifesto to them, and boom. fucking Communist China. oh yeah, Japanese Imperialism might also have not helped.

  • @Ggdivhjkjl
    @Ggdivhjkjl4 жыл бұрын

    The people of Okinawa have the longest life span in the world.

  • @cageybee7221
    @cageybee72214 жыл бұрын

    8:50 as opposed to a vertical beach, of course.

  • @sunglassshinpan1352
    @sunglassshinpan13524 жыл бұрын

    3:43, Yoshinogawa Service Area in Tokushima Prefecture: An AWESOME place!! 😳😎 I recommend diving off the cliffs into the Yoshinogawa River!

  • @safebox36
    @safebox364 жыл бұрын

    D-Did you just say "Japan's more Northern Ireland"?

  • @mishapurser7542
    @mishapurser75424 жыл бұрын

    I love how the old map shown in the bit explaining Kyoto and Tokyo is clearly upside down if you look at the writing on it.

  • @Cybernaut551
    @Cybernaut5512 жыл бұрын

    Name Explain is answering the real questions.

  • @petercdowney
    @petercdowney2 жыл бұрын

    It would appear that some people count Okinawa (the largest of the Ryukyu Islands) as one of Japan's main islands. Probably to bring the total to five - in Japan, four is said to be an unlucky number.

  • @formerCA
    @formerCA4 жыл бұрын

    The name Chugoku Region comes from the Heian period when the two centres of power was at Kyoto and Dazaifu in Kyushu. The region in between hence became known as Chugoku... middle regions. Please do some proper research.

  • @alecity4877
    @alecity48774 жыл бұрын

    Chugoku means central country for the very reason you imagined, it was more central to the japanese people from the Yayoi period to the Nara period.

  • @TeaYenSvg
    @TeaYenSvg4 жыл бұрын

    This guy has big brains. Putting a Crunchyroll ad on a video about Japan

  • @Freakyboss
    @Freakyboss4 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Well done! :) ( I understand, that you live from advertising your sponsors, but near to 1:40 only for advertising? )

  • @kibakumamoto5435
    @kibakumamoto54353 жыл бұрын

    1:38 Japan is a island by the sea filled with volcanoes and it's BEAUTIFUL

  • @a_pancake693
    @a_pancake6934 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see that Crunchyroll sponsored you on the japan video

  • @TamakiOtomo
    @TamakiOtomo4 жыл бұрын

    I have found 3 theories for the origin of Sendai's name. 1. Although the current kanjis are 仙台, up to the 17th century, it was called 千代 (pronunciation is sendai or chiyo) which means a long time, or thousand years. It was the name of the war lord Date Masamune's castle there. But actually it was called 千体 Sentai ("thousand bodies") as there were a lot of buddhist statues around. And the t became a d in spoken language quickly, probably on purpose, as the thousand years meaning was more imposant for a castle. After this they chose not so common kanjis as it was a name (this happened a lot in Japan). It became 仙臺 (the kanjis of wizard and kitchen) but in the modern era, there was a huge kanji simplification movement, so it ended up as 仙台. 台 is still the first kanji of the word "kitchen". 2. In Ainu language, Sepu Nai means "wide river". This became Sendai for the Japanese. As Sendai has a big river called Hirosegawa. 3. The district the castle was is called 川内 Kawauchi in Japanese reading, but the Chinese reading of it is Sennai which became Sendai. Usually you read kanjis together with the Chinese reading, but names are exceptions. 川内 means "in the river". I hope it helped a little, although there's no clear answer.

  • @Werevampiwolf
    @Werevampiwolf7 ай бұрын

    I did a double take at 9:20 because that's the exact same photo as my desktop background ever since I was a teenager. So I had a second of "wait did the browser close?? Where are my desktop icons???" lol

  • @franzfanz
    @franzfanz4 жыл бұрын

    6:35 This is really inaccurate. While it's certainly possible to see Mt Fuji from Tokyo, there is a mountain range between the city and mountain itself which means that only the very top is visible.

  • @thulx3997
    @thulx39974 жыл бұрын

    Turn on the subtitle at 2:06, it says: "however as well as being split geographically by Ireland [...]"

  • @nicholasnelson7365
    @nicholasnelson73654 жыл бұрын

    He pronounced Nara and Kyushu wrong.He thinks that 'ky' is pronounced as 'j' as in French. Edit:It was actually Naha,not Nara

  • @jakubpociecha8819

    @jakubpociecha8819

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well,that's what he's known for afterall

  • @nicholasnelson7365

    @nicholasnelson7365

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jakubpociecha8819 basically in every video

  • @Ggdivhjkjl

    @Ggdivhjkjl

    4 жыл бұрын

    He's not the best when it comes to pronunciation.

  • @TheZexodius

    @TheZexodius

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nicholas Nelson thats okay as long as we understand it I guess

  • @nicholasnelson7365

    @nicholasnelson7365

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Ggdivhjkjl if i was him,i would learn the pronounciation first before editing the video

  • @user-mm4nd4gp8p
    @user-mm4nd4gp8p4 жыл бұрын

    Kyushu is pronounced like its written, jyu is closer to the number ten rather than nine. Nine in japanese is Kyu.

  • @akihikosakurai4013
    @akihikosakurai40132 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: chūgoku also means china. Not even kidding, exact same kanji and everything. 中国. Although now it's sometimes referred to as the san'in and san'yo regions to avoid confusing tourists

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un4 жыл бұрын

    I like Okinawa, the origin of karate. And the Stitch anime takes place there

  • @pemimpiradikall

    @pemimpiradikall

    4 жыл бұрын

    I didnt know kim jongun watch anime

  • @NetherTaker
    @NetherTaker4 жыл бұрын

    Want me to make the Chuugoku region even more confusing? 「中国」(Chuugoku) is also the name for "China" in Japanese as 「国」can also mean "Country". I remember I was on r/Translator and saw something that had 「中国」on it and commented that it had something to do with China. And that's when I learned about the Chuugoku region as someone with more knowledge of Japanese told me that it wasn't referring to China based on context I was unable to read.

  • @jacobchurchwardtruered116
    @jacobchurchwardtruered1164 жыл бұрын

    You should do a video about how Battle ships get there names.

  • @TylerRossow
    @TylerRossow2 жыл бұрын

    I like how straightforward the names are 😂

  • @benjaminmerino1644
    @benjaminmerino16444 жыл бұрын

    Chugoku it's kind of awkward because in Japanese chugoku also means china, and is written the same

  • @jrsdt2ndaccount30
    @jrsdt2ndaccount304 жыл бұрын

    Petition for name explained for all kinds of road

  • @theophonchana5025
    @theophonchana50254 жыл бұрын

    中国 (ちゅうごく) also means China

  • @TotoDG
    @TotoDG4 жыл бұрын

    I'd be keen to see the origins of names of the Channel Islands (if you haven't already done so, of course).

  • @user-fc4px2ol1k
    @user-fc4px2ol1k4 жыл бұрын

    The origin of the place name is interesting. I live in a place called Goi in Japan. The commission for the name came from the famous sword maker, Kaji, who used to make He said that they built five wells because they needed water for their wells. The reason why we built five wells is because It was to be delivered to a famous general. The name "Goi" is said to have come from that.

  • @atsukorichards1675

    @atsukorichards1675

    4 жыл бұрын

    So the name, Goi, is 五井 (five wells)?

  • @goransekulic3671
    @goransekulic36714 жыл бұрын

    These pronunciations are KILLING me lol! Regardless, Chugoku region probably traces its name origin to pre Sengoku era where, given how Japan used to be riven in two parts(East and West ; the whole point behind Tokyo and Kyoto), it was probably seen as a middle province of sorts. Even so, Kinki seems more central to me, but...what do I know?

  • @videosight1
    @videosight14 жыл бұрын

    Horizontal beach as opposed to the typical vertical beach

  • @atsukorichards1675

    @atsukorichards1675

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yokohama (横浜) - 横(よこ) usually means side.

  • @fauzirahman3285
    @fauzirahman32854 жыл бұрын

    I have a feeling many of these places used to have their own names that are now lost to history, and probably renamed for administrative reasons by newer occupants / rulers. An example is Tokyo which literally mean Eastern Capital. Formerly it was called Edo and this can still be seen in the naming of some landmarks in Tokyo, such as the Toei Oedo line where Oedo and Edo more or less sounds he same.

  • @formerCA
    @formerCA4 жыл бұрын

    The name of Sendai comes from the 1000 buddha statues in the Aksagarbha Hall in Daimanji Temple. 1000 buddhas in Japanese is Sentai-butsu 千體佛. The place was written as Sendai 千代, meaning thousand generations first, but was changed to the current 仙臺 when the Date clan took their seat in the city, and retranscribed the name based on a line from a classical chinese poem that went 仙臺初見五城楼.

  • @formerCA
    @formerCA4 жыл бұрын

    Hiroshima is named after the Mori clan's castle with its name, which was coined by taking one letter from the Mori ancestral father Oe-no-Hiromoto, and the local warrior Fukushima Motonaga who helped Mori in subjugating the area. The name Hiroshima (vast islands) was also befitting because the castle was built on one of the many islands that composed the now lost delta.

  • @TotoDG
    @TotoDG4 жыл бұрын

    5:06. NO CAPES!

  • @justinleecw
    @justinleecw4 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Sendai is the birthplace and hometown of Hirohito Araki, the manga artist who draws JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure. Morioh from Parts 4 and 8 is based on Sendai.

  • @Zeldathemillennial
    @Zeldathemillennial4 жыл бұрын

    3:19 rip Mr. Iwata

  • @masnakajima
    @masnakajima4 жыл бұрын

    I'm Brazilian Japanese, and used to be confused about Chugoku, because it's also "China" (the country) in Japanese as well

  • @AndrewVasirov
    @AndrewVasirov4 жыл бұрын

    Chuugoku also means China in Japanese. I wonder how they differentiate it. Do they call it Chuugoku chihou or they use some nickname for the region as to not confuse it with China?

  • @NetherTaker

    @NetherTaker

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably context.

  • @ryotakus.1560
    @ryotakus.15604 жыл бұрын

    The name "Hokkaidō" (北海道) will make more sense if you know the ancient regional unit 道(dō) imported from Tang dynasty in China. The ancient court divided Japan except Ezo into the following: 畿内 (Kinai) (meaning direct-controlled district): current Kinki 東海道 (Tōkai-dō; East-sea Road) : current Tokai region + Kanto region 東山道 (Tōsan-dō; East-mountain Road):current Tohoku region 北陸道 (Hokuriku-dō; North-land Road) : current Hokuriku region 山陰道 (San-in-dō; Mountain-back Road) :current San-in region 山陽道 (San-yō-dō; Mountain-front Road) :current San-yō region 南海道 (Nankai-dō; South-sea Road) : current Shikoku 西海道 (Seinan-dō; West-sea Road) : current Kyushu Meiji government added 北海道 (Hokkaidō) to these broad regions. Though, it's too large for the actual use that smaller unit 県 (ken) took place except in Hakkaidō. The above regional names still can be found in the name of Shinkansen. Maybe, you've heard of Tōkaidō Shinkansen. Tips: Korea still uses this unit for the prefecture.

  • @verylostdoommarauder
    @verylostdoommarauder2 ай бұрын

    7:31 "Hermit", "Stand"? Obviously this is a Jojo reference, to the Stand named Hermit Purple.

  • @norielsylvire4097
    @norielsylvire40974 жыл бұрын

    Chyugoku means China in Japanese. In fact in kanji it's written 中国, and Chinese people use the same symbols for the name of China, as far as I'm aware (I don't know that much Chinese) That region is the closest of all of them to China so it might make sense

  • @thewingedserpent5823
    @thewingedserpent58234 жыл бұрын

    Why did I never realize that shikoku literally just means 4 country. I studied japan studies for 1,5 years and never noticed it

  • @sterichardsson
    @sterichardsson4 жыл бұрын

    Did you really just ignore Nagoya, the biggest city in Chubu and the 4th most populous city in Japan?

  • @bssb8537
    @bssb85374 жыл бұрын

    How did the iran/iraq/syria /lebanon (the middle east contries) got their names? I know im not a patreon but If you find it a good idea for a video you can make it.

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk864 жыл бұрын

    And people complain about English speaking people naming things creatively. Just another thing that brings us all together. :)

  • @modmaker7617
    @modmaker76174 жыл бұрын

    1st 4 Pokémon Regions are 4 inspired by Japan: Kanto = Kanto Kansai = Johto Kyushu = Hoenn Hokkaido = Sinnoh The latest 4 are based on places outside Japan: Unova is based on Manhattan & surrounding parts of New York City. Kalos is based on Northern France. Alola is based of 4 of 8 islands of Hawaii. Galar is based on just England (No Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland but their culture is is big part of this region) but it is upside down. Was in egotistical of Game Freak to make the 1st region the region of Japan where Tokyo, the capital is?

  • @salvadoracosta4510

    @salvadoracosta4510

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mod Maker I thought Johto was based on the Kansai region

  • @modmaker7617

    @modmaker7617

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@salvadoracosta4510 You are right. I looked at Japanese geography & confused it with Pokémon Geography.

  • @yellobird5682
    @yellobird56824 жыл бұрын

    The center of Hiroshima used to be a delta, so it was named Hiroshima "a large island".

  • @Noremac023
    @Noremac0234 жыл бұрын

    1:37 for video start

  • @cursedalien
    @cursedalien4 жыл бұрын

    When I was in 3rd grade, we had to read a book about a little girl who got leukemia from the atomic bombing of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki (I forget which one) and tried to make 1000 paper cranes (I think to plead for her life, I forgot). At the end, we all learned how to make paper cranes (I still do sometimes), but that book was super sad and my mom didn't know why the teacher thought it was appropriate for 3rd graders.

  • @Robersora
    @Robersora4 жыл бұрын

    Chuugoku might not be in the center of Japan, but if you zoom out it's kind of in the center of Japan. Also historically it was the center of action.

  • @tdog652041
    @tdog6520414 жыл бұрын

    And I just thought Honshu was a nebula class starship 😕

  • @friesandpopcorn94
    @friesandpopcorn943 жыл бұрын

    2:52 what place is this in Hokkaido?

  • @gamethrough5530
    @gamethrough55304 жыл бұрын

    7:27 is this the work of an enemy stand???

  • @dogedog8686

    @dogedog8686

    4 жыл бұрын

    Game Tutorials Oh no

  • @neigewolf4242
    @neigewolf42422 жыл бұрын

    I checked if someone mentionned it in the comments but it seems you mispronounced the island of Kyushu as Jiushu which change the meaning completely as 九州 meaning nine provinces become 十州 meaning ten provinces. It's not a big deal just had to point it out, otherwise great video as always.

  • @SleepySlakoth
    @SleepySlakoth4 жыл бұрын

    Chugoku = 中国 = China Ironic how the same word is interpreted differently. 'central country' vs 'middle kingdom'

  • @diamondsam
    @diamondsam4 жыл бұрын

    The best sponsor crunchryroll defo I love to watch anime especially on cr

  • @meribor
    @meribor3 жыл бұрын

    What area is the map at 8:15 of?

  • @formerCA
    @formerCA4 жыл бұрын

    It's said that Osaka大阪... used to be Osaka小坂...small hill, referring to the shallow slope where Osaka castle stands. (Oh saka and Os aka... there is a difference in pronunciation.) 'Small' was not fitting for a castle, so it was changed to great hill. Osaka.

  • @formerCA
    @formerCA4 жыл бұрын

    Kansai and Kanto come from classical chinese divisions of china that japan adopted. It became especially common when the Emperor was seated to the west of the three gates that guard the central region (Kin-ki ... near the palatial grounds), and the Shogun was seated in Edo, west of those three gates. Travel of people and goods were heavily regulated at the gates, but they were abolished entirely when the capital moved to Tokyo, so I cannot say that your explanation is entirely accurate.

  • @GeniialesCoOko
    @GeniialesCoOko4 жыл бұрын

    Would have been great to include the kanji, as most of the names get really obvious once you split them into the kanji

  • @CycloneSakura
    @CycloneSakura4 жыл бұрын

    Name explain: *admits he is an anime fan* Me: NANI?!

  • @WaterShowsProd
    @WaterShowsProd4 жыл бұрын

    Hokkaido is also famous for its dairy products.

  • @Bakapooru
    @Bakapooru4 жыл бұрын

    The map at 8L15 is upside-down.

  • @andreikovacs3476
    @andreikovacs34764 жыл бұрын

    How many are here because they played 'the great war of prefectures' during their childhood?

  • @BlizzardofKnives
    @BlizzardofKnives4 жыл бұрын

    I hope the Land Of Fire has ninjas...

  • @roygbiv3305
    @roygbiv33052 жыл бұрын

    those people share one national flag, whereas united kingdom comprises england, wales, scotland and the northern area of ireland where each region has own national flag. some of japanese cant understand what they are saying about the union jack when they hear it comprises regional flags.