Japanese

Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics.

In Japan

Kantō may refer to: *

Kantō Plain The , in the Kantō region of central Honshu, is the largest plain in Japan. Its 17,000 km2 covers more than half of the region extending over Tokyo, Saitama Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefe ...

Kantō region The is a geography, geographical region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. In a common definition, the region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures of Japan, prefectures: Chiba Prefecture, Chiba, Gunma Prefe ...

Kantō-kai The was a Japanese underworld organization formed by Yoshio Kodama in 1964, and named for the Kantō region from which it drew most of its membership. Kodama envisioned the Kantō-kai as a secret national police force, with the aim of forwardin ...

, organized crime group *

Kanto (Pokémon) Japanese Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics. In Japan Kantō may refer to: *Kantō Plain *Kantō region *Kantō-kai, organized crime group * Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ''Pokémo ...

, a geographical region in the ''Pokémon'' media franchise, named after the Japanese region of the same name Kantō is a festival held in Akita every year. *

Akita Kanto is a Japanese name and may refer to: Places * Akita Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in ; "Tōhoku" in . Its ...

(Japanese: 竿燈)

In Northeast China or Manchuria

Kantō may refer to the region of

Jiandao Jiandao or Chientao, known in Korean as Gando or Kando, is a historical border region along the north bank of the Tumen River in Jilin, Jilin Province, Northeast China that has a high population of ethnic Koreans. The word "Jiandao", literall ...

(Japanese: 間島 ''Kantō'') in Manchuria, now known more commonly as Yanbian. Kantō (関東) is an alternate name for Northeast China or Manchuria used in the following: *

Kwantung Army The Kwantung Army (Japanese language, Japanese: 関東軍, ''Kantō-gun'') was a Armies of the Imperial Japanese Army, general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945. The Kwantung Army was formed in 1906 as a security force for th ...

(Japanese: 関東軍 ''Kantōgun''), a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army *

Kwantung Leased Territory The Kwantung Leased Territory () was a Concessions in China, leased territory of the Empire of Japan in the Liaodong Peninsula from 1905 to 1945. Japan first acquired Kwantung from the Qing dynasty, Qing Empire in perpetuity in 1895 in the Tre ...

(Japanese: 関東州 ''Kantōshū''), a Japanese possession in Northeastern China until the end of World War II

Italian

Kanto (music) Kanto () is a popular genre of Turkish music. Terminology Italian opera and theater had a profound effect on Turkish culture during the early 20th century. The terminology of music and theater derived from Italian. In the argot of the improvi ...

is a form of

Italian theatre The theatre of Italy originates from the Middle Ages, with its background dating back to the times of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek colonies of Magna Graecia, in southern Italy, the theatre of the Italic peoples and the theatre of ancient R ...

and opera popular in Turkey. *

Kanto (comics) Kanto is a supervillain appearing in media published by DC Comics. A New God from the planet Apokolips, he is a servant of Darkseid and a master assassin. Kanto has appeared in various media outside comics, primarily in association with the Ne ...

, a fictional character in the Mr. Miracle series.

Korean

Kanto (rapper) Choi Kwang-ryul (born May 23, 1994), known by the stage name Kanto, is a South Korean rapper and composer. He debuted as a soloist with his debut single, ''What You Want'', on October 25, 2013. He later debuted as a member of South Korean hip ...

, a South Korean rapper under

Brand New Music Brand New Music (, also stylized as BrandNew Music and initialized as BNM) is a South Korean hip hop company founded in 2011 by rapper . History 2003–2012: Founding and first-generation artists Kim Se-hwan (), known as Rhymer, founded the r ...

Other uses

* KANTO - National Agent Data authority file and name database for persons and corporate bodies *

Subtropical Storm Kanto The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones immediately to the north and south of the tropics. Geographically part of the temperate zones of both hemispheres, they cover the middle latitudes from to approximately 35 ...

of the 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season {{disambiguation, geo pt:Kanto