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Example sentences for: tohoku

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Until the Tokugawa shoguns completed their conquest of all Japan from the 17th century on, the towns of Tohoku constituted the northern boundaries of the Japanese empire.
The very remoteness of Tohoku was appealing to such religious groups as the Zen Buddhists, who espouse an ascetic, unworldly life and constructed some of the country’s finest Buddhist temples in this northern part of Honshu.
Its massive rice yield (as much as 20 percent of the national rice crop) has made Tohoku the chief supplier of the country’s needs.
It was only when the Ainu were progressively driven north up into Hokkaido that Tohoku was opened up to broader settlement.
The Japan Railways Keihin-Tohoku line takes about 40 minutes from Tokyo to Sakuragi-cho Station in Yokohama; the faster shinkansen leaves you off at Shin-Yokohama, on the outskirts of the city.