Kantō (Concert of Europe)

Kantō (Japanese: 関東地方 Kantō-chihō) is a region of, located in the eastern-central part of the Honshu island, sharing land borders with to the north and  to the west. The region is the smallest of Japan by land area, but the most densely populated: its capital,, is also the empire's national capital and largest city.

Kantō's central area is mostly plain, a wide valley which opens between the mountains and hills that straddle its borders with other Japanese regions. The region was the heartland of feudal Japan during the Kamakura and Echi periods, and rose to become the central cultural, economic and later administrative heart of the Japanese nation, and later became the heart of its industrialization process. The region is still heavily industrialized, as is much of mainland Japan.