prefectures: Prefectural names in Japan

Description

prefectures provides the name of prefectures in Japan as well as the regional name to be grouped.

Usage

data(prefectures)

Arguments

Details

The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 subnational jurisdictions. prefectures provides the names in JIS code (JIS X 0401) order as UTF-8 encoded Japanese Kanji.The regions of Japan are assigned to corresponding prefecture, even though such regional division of Japan are not official administrative units.

Examples

Run this code

data(prefectures)
head(prefectures)
## Obtain the name as Romaji (ASCII)
kakasi(head(prefecture$name))

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