prefectures: Prefectural names in Japan

In Nippon: Japanese Utility Functions and Data

Description

prefectures provides the name of prefectures in Japan as well as the regional name to be grouped.

Usage

data(prefectures)

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on the following 3 variables.

jiscode

a character vector

name

a character vector

region

a character vector

Details

The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 subnational jurisdictions. prefectures provides the names in JIS code (JIS X 0401) order as UTF-8 encoded Japanese Kanji.The regions of Japan are assigned to corresponding prefecture, even though such regional division of Japan are not official administrative units.

Note

If you need the prefectural name in ASCII, kakasi can help to convert Kanji to Romaji (ASCII). See the example showed below.

Examples

data(prefectures)
head(prefectures)
## Not run: 
## Obtain the name as Romaji (ASCII)
kakasi(head(prefecture$name))

## End(Not run)

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