Nippon (version 0.7.1)

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)

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on the following 3 variables.

jiscode

a character vector

name

a character vector

region

a character vector

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

# NOT RUN {
data(prefectures)
head(prefectures)
# }
# NOT RUN {
## Obtain the name as Romaji (ASCII)
kakasi(head(prefecture$name))
# }