is a
city
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(formerly a town) located on the island of
Etajima in
Hiroshima Bay
is a bay in the Inland Sea, Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hiroshima Wan" in . Administratively, the bay is divided between Hiroshima and Yamaguchi Prefectures. The bay's shore is a Ria. Its surface area is about 1,000 km², w ...
in southwestern
Hiroshima Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama Prefecture to the ...
,
Japan
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.
The modern city of Etajima was established on November 1, 2004, from the merger of the town of Etajima (from
Aki District) absorbing three towns from
Saeki District:
Nōmi,
Ōgaki, and
Okimi Ōkimi (, ''Ōkimi'', ''Daiō'') or Ame no shita Siroshimesu Ōkimi (, Chi Tenka Daiō) is the title of the Head of the Yamato Kingship or the monarch title of Wakoku (Old Japan) from the Kofun period through the Asuka period in the ancient Japan. ...
.
As of December 31, 2016, population data, the city has an estimated
population
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of 24,596 and a
population density
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of 240 persons per km².
The total area is 100.97 km².
A naval museum and the
Naval Academy Etajima is located in the portion of the city that was the town.
Etajima holds two annual
marathon
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s, the Orange Marathon and the Oyster Marathon.
The Orange Marathon has been held for more than two decades. It is held every year in October, at the beginning of the orange season. Each participant is rewarded for their efforts with a bag of locally grown oranges. The 23rd Annual Orange Marathon in 2008 had over 2000 participants for 1K, 3K, 5K, and 10K runs, and a half-marathon.
The Oyster Marathon is relatively a smaller scale marathon. Participants are rewarded with oysters.
On March 14, 2013, a man went on a
stabbing rampage in Etajima, killing two co-workers and wounding six others.
See also
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Bombing of Kure (July 1945)
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Imperial Japanese Naval Academy The was a school established to train line officers for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was originally located in Nagasaki, moved to Yokohama in 1866, and was relocated to Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1869. It moved to Etajima, Hiroshima in 1888. Students st ...
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Kure Naval Arsenal
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Kure Naval District
was the second of four main administrative districts of the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy. Its territory included the Inland Sea of Japan and the Pacific coasts of southern Honshū from Wakayama to Yamaguchi prefectures, eastern and norther ...
References
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Cities in Hiroshima Prefecture