Talk:Honshu

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Latest comment: 1 year ago by GormLocha in topic Hondo isn't a Honshu, Akitsushima is correct

Background

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Honshu has many background culture in Honshu. For instance the Leader of the buddist temple Confussious came to the land of japan for a very important ceremony.

population

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From the provisional 2005 Japanese census, adding up the 34 prefectures which are mainly on Honshu island give a 2005 population of about 103,300,000. Does anyone know which cities/towns/villages of these 34 prefectures are not on Honshu island so we can get a more accurate count? In nay case, I believe the above figure should not overestimate the actual figure by more than 2%. Polaron | Talk 15:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Are you trying to distinguish the population of Honshu the island from that of Honshu the collection of prefectures? If so, the difference should be quite small. In Tokyo, there are the Izu Islands and the Ogasawara Islands; in Niigata, there's Sado. The Oki Islands in Shimane. Awaji in Hyogo. Etajima. Itsukushima. See List of islands of Japan. Fg2 20:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the information. I count about 450,000 total on the outlying islands so Honshu island itself should be about 102,850,000 (a difference of 0.4%). Polaron | Talk 20:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Project Assessments

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Hondo

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Older name Böri (talk) 13:41, 22 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

Can we get some more info in the article about the name and why it changed? Cromwellt|talk|contribs 21:14, 9 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved per discussion below. - GTBacchus(talk) 21:28, 28 December 2010 (UTC)Reply



HonshūHonshu — The macron-less form of this island's name is more common, and it is not necessary to retain the pronunciation tool for a geographic article's title.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 05:54, 17 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Prefectures

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Why are only 26 prefectures listed in the infobox when the article mentions 34? 93.142.177.46 (talk) 20:17, 29 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

Stop vandalizing with unsourced templates everywhere

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This unsourced templates is going over the top by saying every line is unsourced. Chill down. 08:11, 24 June 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.70.142.23 (talk)

Hondo isn't a Honshu, Akitsushima is correct

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The term "Hondo" refers to the whole of Japan and is not the old name of Honshu. The correct term is Akitsushima. (I would be happy to refer you to the Japanese Wikipedia page). I would like to add that I am Japanese, I was born in Japan and have lived in Japan for 22 years of my life, and I have never confused the Hondo with Honshu. For more information, please refer to the Japanese version of Wikipedia. There are quite a few descriptions in the English version of Japan-related pages left by foreign editors who seem to have misunderstood the Japanese language, so I would like to correct them. (I use deepL) GormLocha (talk) 23:03, 28 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

There is no source for the fact that Hondo is an old name for Honshu, which is misunderstood by editors who are not familiar with Japan.
I would be happy to refer you to the Japanese page of Akitsushima. It's at the elementary education level in Japan, so almost everyone knows about it. GormLocha (talk) 23:09, 28 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
Here is the description of Akitsushima from the Japanese Wikipedia
Akitsushima
An ancient name for Honshu, Japan. In Japan's oldest historical book, Kojiki (dedicated in 712), it is called "Oyamato toyo akitsu-shima" (大倭豊秋津島), and in another historical book, Nihonshoki (completed in 720), it is called "Oyamato toyo akitsu-shima" (大日本豊秋津洲). Kunisansumi# Comparison Chart
For the Kunisami myth, see Kunisami.
For the "island" itself, whose modern name is "Honshu," see Honshu. GormLocha (talk) 23:13, 28 June 2023 (UTC)Reply