Kanto is a region of Honshu, Japan, encompassing the Tokyo metropolitan area, namely Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa Prefecture. It became the center of modern development after the Meiji Restoration and the move of the capital from Kyoto to Edo (Tokyo), as Kanto became the center of national government, the nation's largest group of universities and cultural institutions, the greatest population, and a large industrial zone. Its population rose from 11,127,000 in 1920 to 23,003,000 in 1960 and 43,300,000 in 2018.
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