Home Islands

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The Home Islands refers to the four main islands of Japan: Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido. The term is not in common usage in the present day; it was used at the end of World War II to define the area of Japan to which its sovereignty and the constitutional rule of the Emperor would be restricted.

See also: Mainland Japan

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