Suggested topics for region-presentations

Here are just the ideas for your geography presentaions.
*You don't really have to pick up the topic from this list. If you want to research something you think interesting, that's great.


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Hokkaido Region
Ainu people
Northern Territorial Problem w/ Russia (“Hoppo Ryodo”)
Sapporo Olympic
Snow Festival
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Tohoku Region
Date, Masamune (a Samurai)
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (a Samurai) and Fujiwara Clan
Nebuta Festival in Aomori prefecture
Shogi (Japanese Chess-like game) in Tendo-city
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Kanto Region
Tokyo as the capital city
Tokugawa Ieyasu (a Samurai)
Takeda Shingen (a Samurai)
Minamoto no Yoritomo and Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Samurais)
Buddha statue in Kamakura city
Boshin War in Aizu Wakamatsu city (at the end of Edo era = the end of Samurai’s period)
Nikko Saru Mawashi (traditional Monkey performance)
Meiji Shirine
Yasukuni Shrine problem w/ other Asian countries
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Chubu Regio
Nagoya Castle
Nagano Olympic
Hokuriku region
Tokugawa Ieyasu (a Samurai)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (a Samurai)
Oda Nobunaga (a Samurai)
Uesugi Kenshin (a Samurai)
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Kinki Region
Kyoto as the old capital city
Nara as the old capital city
Kobe city
Osaka city
Buddha statue in Nara city
Ise Shrine
Osaka Castle
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (a Samurai)
Great Awaji-Hanshin Earthquake
Matsuo, Basho (a Haiku (=short poetry) artist)
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Chugoku Region
Hiroshima (atomic bomb)
Itsukushima Shrine
Izumo Shrine
Mori Motonari (a Samurai)
Takeshima / Dokdo (or Tokto) problem w/ Korea
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Shikoku Region
Sakamoto Ryoma (key person for the Meiji Restoration)
Konpira Do Temple
Seto Ohashi (Bridge b/w Shikoku and Honshu)
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Kyushu Region
Nagasaki (atomic bomb)
Dejima (trading port in the Edo era) in Nagasaki
Satsuma clan and Choshu clan (at the time of Meiji Restoration)
Saigo Takamori / Okubo Toshimitsu / Takasugi Shinsaku / Katsura Kogoro (Samurais at the time of Meiji Restoration)
Okinawa problem w/ U.S.
Origin of “Kamikaze” (Mongolian attacks on Kyushu)