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    Konnichiwa, everybody! Japan has some really cool flags. Most of them have a simple one-color

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    background with a really neat-looking logo or emblem in the center. And I really wanna

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    share some of these awesome flag designs with y'all. So, ladies and gentlemen, here are

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    my top ten favorite flags of Japanese prefectures. Prefectures, by the way, are Japan's main

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    political division. You know, how the USA has states, Canada has provinces, Russia has

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    "federal subjects" or whatever, Japan has prefectures. So that's what those are. Anyway,

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    let's get started. Number 10: Osaka. You can see these four little O's all connected to

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    each other, and this sort of futuristic-looking symbol is inspired partially by the crest

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    of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. You know, that conquering guy from the history of Japan. "And then someone

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    else who works for him kills them. And that guy finishes conquering Japan. And then he

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    confiscated everybody's swords. And made some rules." You know, that guy. Also, the blue

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    partially represents the ocean that Osaka Prefecture, y'know, is right by. Number 9:

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    Shizuoka. That central emblem there both doubles as a map of the prefecture–a kind of stylized

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    map–as well as a picture of Mount Fuji, which... I think that's really cool. The orange

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    represents sunlight and passion and unity; and the blue, of course, represents the ocean,

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    which the prefecture borders, as well as progress and development. Number 8: Ehime. Now, this

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    one kinda stands out from the rest of the prefectural flags because it doesn't have

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    a simple one-color background. It actually uses some stripes. A little bit of originality

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    there. Now, that star-shaped looking thing is the flower of the mikan fruit, or the mandarin

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    orange fruit, which Ehime is a top producer of. The yellow represents happiness, the green

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    represents peace, and the white represents simplicity and purity. Number 7: Hyogo. Now,

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    this is one of the many Japanese prefectural flags that use a Japanese character from their

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    name as a sort of logo or emblem. This character you see on Hyogo's flag is the kanji character

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    for the syllable "hyo" in "Hyogo". Now, the Japanese writing system is made of three alphabets.

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    They're not technically alphabets, but I'm just simplifying 'cause it's complicated.

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    Three alphabets. There is kanji, which are basically Chinese characters that basically

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    got stolen into Japanese, and there's also hiragana and katakana. So this kinda means

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    that there are three different options for writing your prefecture's name down. So some

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    prefectures use katakana on their flags, some use hiragana, and some–like Hyogo–use

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    kanji characters. To my knowledge, no prefectural flags use emoji yet, but just give it a few

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    years. So Hyogo took "hyo", the first syllable, and they wrote it in kanji, and they stylized

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    it so it kinda looks like an ocean wave kind of thing on their flag, which I think is really

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    cool. And that represents the fact that there are a bunch of seas that surround the prefecture

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    of Hyogo. Number 6: Kagoshima. I really like this one because of their emblem in the middle.

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    It is a stylized map of the southern part of the island of Kyushu, which is where Kagoshima

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    is located. And that red circle represents Sakurajima, their famous volcano. And they

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    managed to do it in a way that is really simple and iconic, and almost symmetric. It's awesome.

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    Number 5 is the prefecture of Tokyo. That purple is a very historic color, and that

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    central emblem represents the sun emanating energy in all directions, and it also represents

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    the fact that Tokyo is kinda the center of Japan. Number 4: Ibaraki. It has one of my

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    favorite logos in the middle there. That emblem is a representation of a blooming rose bud,

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    which is the prefectural flower. Also, the blue represents the Pacific Ocean. You know,

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    like they do. Number 3: Kyoto. I'm a big fan of the colors they chose for this flag, as

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    well as that pretty looking flower in the middle. And that central emblem is a stylized

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    form of the kanji character for the syllable "kyo" of "Kyoto". Getting exciting. Number

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    2 is Saitama. Now, you see those 16 comma-looking shapes in a circle? Those are called magatama

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    beads, which is part of the culture of Japan, and the white background represents friendship

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    and purity. I really like how the flag of Saitama Prefecture looks kinda similar to

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    the flag of Japan. I don't know if that's intentional, but it looks cool. And my number

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    1 favorite Japanese prefectural flag is the flag of the prefecture of Nagano. It's got

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    an orange background that represents the sun, and an awesome looking logo in white, which

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    represents snow. And the color and the emblem go together so well. It looks so simple and

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    it looks so beautiful at the same time. And there are two really neat hidden pictures

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    inside the emblem of Nagano there. One of them is that you can kinda see the image of

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    a mountain being reflected in a lake, which I think is really really neat. But also, you

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    can see the katakana character for the syllable "na", which is the first syllable of Nagano.

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    And all of that is located in one very simple, beautiful, epic looking emblem in this orange

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    and white awesome flag. This is my favorite one. It looks awesome! Good job, Nagano. So

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    those are my top ten prefectural flags of Japan. And I didn't even cover the city flags

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    of Japan; there are some really cool ones there, too. Look 'em up. And let me know in

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    the comments what your favorite Japanese flags are, and thank you guys for watching. Sayonara.

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    Stay awesome. Bye.

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Definition and meaning of PREFECTURAL

What does "prefectural mean?"

adjective
Concerning a state or region in a country.