Kanagawa Prefecture

Odawara Hojo Festival

Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県, Kanagawa-ken?) is a prefecture located inward the southern Kantō part of Japan. The uppercase is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.

History

The prefecture has roughly archaeological sites going dorsum to the Jōmon menses (around 400 BC). About 3,000 years ago, Mount Hakone produced a volcanic explosion which resulted inward Lake Ashi on the western expanse of the prefecture.

It is believed[by whom?] that the Yamato Dynasty ruled this expanse from fifth century onwards. In the ancient era, its plains were real sparsely inhabited.

Kamakura inward cardinal Sagami was the uppercase of Nippon during the Kamakura menses (1185–1333).

In medieval Japan, Kanagawa was part of the provinces of Sagami as well as Musashi.

During the Edo period, the western part of Sagami Province was governed past times the daimyo of Odawara Castle, spell the eastern part was straight governed past times the Tokugawa Shogunate inward Edo (Tokyo).

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Commodore Matthew Perry landed inward Kanagawa inward 1853 as well as 1854 as well as signed the Convention of Kanagawa to forcefulness opened upwards Japanese ports to the United States. Yokohama, the largest deep-water port inward Tokyo Bay, was opened to unusual traders inward 1859 later several to a greater extent than years of unusual pressure, as well as eventually developed into the largest trading port inward Japan. Nearby Yokosuka, closer to the rima oris of Tokyo Bay, developed every bit a naval port as well as at nowadays serves every bit headquarters for the U.S. seventh Fleet as well as the fleet operations of the Nippon Maritime Self-Defense Force. After the Meiji Period, many foreigners lived inward Yokohama City, as well as visited Hakone. The Meiji Government developed the kickoff railways inward Japan, from Shinbashi (in Tokyo) to Yokohama inward 1872.

The epicenter of the Great Kantō earthquake inward 1923 was deep beneath Izu Ōshima Island inward Sagami Bay. It devastated Tokyo, the port metropolis of Yokohama, surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, as well as Shizuoka, as well as caused widespread harm throughout the Kantō region. The bounding main receded every bit much a quarter of a mile from the shore at Manazaru Point, as well as and then rushed dorsum towards the shore inward a bang-up wall of H2O which swamped Mitsuishi-shima. At Kamakura, the full expiry damage from earthquake, tsunami, as well as hand notice exceeded 2,000 victims. At Odawara, 90 per centum of the buildings collapsed immediately, as well as subsequent fires burned the rubble along amongst anything else left standing. p. 113].</ref>

Yokohama, Kawasaki as well as other major cities were heavily damaged past times the U.S. bombing inward 1945. Casualties amounted to to a greater extent than than several thousand. After the war, General Douglas MacArthur, the main commander of Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers for the Occupation of Japan, landed inward Kanagawa, earlier moving to other areas. U.S. armed services bases all the same stay inward Kanagawa, including Camp Zama (Army), Yokosuka Naval Base, Naval Air Station Atsugi (Navy).

Prefectural part of Kanagawa

In 1945, Kanagawa was the 15th most populous prefecture inward Japan, amongst the population of almost 1.9 million. In the years later the war, the prefecture underwent rapid urbanization every bit a part of the Tokyo Greater Zone. The population was almost 8.9 i K 1000 every bit of 2008, as well as Kanagawa became the mo most populous prefecture inward 2006.

Transportation

Kanagawa's carry network is heavily intertwined amongst that of Tokyo (see: Transportation inward Greater Tokyo). Shin-Yokohama as well as Odawara stations on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen are located inward the prefecture, providing high-speed rails service to Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, as well as other major cities.