内容紹介

This book illustrates the regional geography of Japan at a prefectural scale. Each prefecture’s topics are summarized laconically in the order of nature, history, culture, population, transportation, primary sector of industry, and other industries. The prefectural topics are neutral, so that we can mention them as easily as weather topics. This book will help those who frequently move for work, study, and travel, and who create branded products in business and administration. Attentive readers will enjoy their own methods to resolve the cultural stratigraphy riddles; in other words, spatial and temporal causal relationship among the topics.

—excerpt from the cover

著者からのコメント

最近、日本を訪れる外国人や、外国で働く日本人が増えてきました。だから自己紹介などで、出身地のことを英語で話す機会もあるだろうと思って、「日本の地誌」を英語で書きました。取り上げたのは、会話や旅行に役立つようなシンプルな話題です。