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Giving the names and boundaries of the different provinces. 



Figure 1. — Map of Japan giving names and boundaries of the different provinces. 



Southern part. 



in table 1, the deaths have exceeded 200,000 and the number of build- 

 ings destroyed directly by earthquake or indirectly by fire or tsunami 

 (a convenient Japanese word for tidal wave, or seismic sea wave due 

 to earthquake) totals about 1,200,000. These figures, whether accurate 



