Lazy Dayz

More kanji for all you folks out there that aren't reading this: 市 (city, market), 町 (town), 村 (village), 区 (division, section, ward), 都 (capital, big city, Tokyo), 府 (administrative prefecture), 県 (prefecture), 島 (island), 京 (capital), 様 (appearance, Mr., Mrs., Miss). Kanji count: 227.

I thought I'd make the kanji more interesting my writing some things about them. For example, using the kanji we (heh-heh) have learnt so far we can now write

• Tokyo: 東京 (toukyou) literally "east capital"
  
• Kyoto: 京都 (kyouto) literally "capital big city"
  
• Hokkaido: 北海道 (hokkaidou) literally "way of the north sea"

Slightly interesting, no? How about this: Japan is divided into 43 prefectures (ken), 2 administrative prefectures (fu), 1 "way" (dou), and 1 capital (to). Prefectures are subdivided into cities (shi), then towns (machi), and finally villages (mura). The two admin prefectures (fu) (Osaka and Kyoto) as well as Tokyo are divided into wards (ku).

Children have to learn all 47 of these prefectures of Japan in school, whereas I barely know 3 English counties. I wish I did...