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Suō-Ōshima
is a town and an island located in Ōshima District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Suō-Ōshima was formed on October 1, 2004 from the merger of the former towns of Ōshima, Kuka, Tachibana and Tōwa, all from towns of Ōshima District. As of April 1, 2017, the town has an estimated population of 17,030. The total area is 138.17 km². Suo-Oshima has established a sister island relationship with the County of Kauai, Hawaii in 1963. A 50th Anniversary commemoration was held on Kauai in October 2013. Current Mayors Takumi Shiiki (Suo-Oshima) and Bernard P. Carvalho, Jr. (Kauai) signed a Reaffirmation of Friendship agreement. Geography Climate Suō-Ōshima has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ... ''Cf ...
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Ōshima District, Yamaguchi
is a district located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Population As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 22,070 and a density of 159.86 persons per km2. The total area is 138.06 km2. Geography The entire territory of the district is an island called Suō-Ōshima. The district is connected with Honshū by a bridge. The area is about 138 square kilometres. There are 22,000 people on the island. The whole island is set aside as a national park. The special product is a mandarin orange called "Ōshima mikan". There are 500 orange groves. Katazoegahama beach is one of the more popular beaches in the west of Japan. This is also famous for camping. There is a tennis court and a roller skate rink, near the beach. Furthermore, there is a resort hotel. Ōshima Bridge The Ōshima Bridge was erected in 1976. It is the second longest span in Japan of this style of bridge. The span of the bridge is 1020m. Its color is pale green. The tide in the strait under the bri ...
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Tōwa, Yamaguchi
was a town located in Ōshima District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,028 and a density of 129.59 persons per km2. The total area was 38.80 km2. On October 1, 2004, Tōwa, along with the towns of Kuka KUKA is a German manufacturer of industrial robots and systems for factory automation. It has been predominantly owned by the Chinese company Midea Group since 2016. The KUKA Robotics Corporation has 25 subsidiaries, mostly sales and servi ..., Ōshima and Tachibana (all from Ōshima District), was merged to create the town of Suō-Ōshima. External links Official website of Suō-Ōshima(in Japanese) Dissolved municipalities of Yamaguchi Prefecture {{Yamaguchi-geo-stub ...
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Tachibana, Yamaguchi
was a town located in Ōshima District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,649 and a density of 195.81 persons per km2. The total area was 28.85 km2. On October 1, 2004, Tachibana, along with the towns of Kuka KUKA is a German manufacturer of industrial robots and systems for factory automation. It has been predominantly owned by the Chinese company Midea Group since 2016. The KUKA Robotics Corporation has 25 subsidiaries, mostly sales and servi ..., Ōshima and Tōwa (all from Ōshima District), was merged to create the town of Suō-Ōshima. External links Official website of Suō-Ōshima(in Japanese) Dissolved municipalities of Yamaguchi Prefecture {{Yamaguchi-geo-stub ...
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Kuka, Yamaguchi
was a town located in Ōshima District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 4,321 and a density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathematicall ... of 186.89 persons per km². The total area was 23.12 km². On October 1, 2004, Kuka, along with the towns of Ōshima, Tachibana and Tōwa (all from Ōshima District), was merged to create the town of Suō-Ōshima. External links Official website of Suō-Ōshima(in Japanese) Dissolved municipalities of Yamaguchi Prefecture {{Yamaguchi-geo-stub ...
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Ōshima, Yamaguchi
was a town located in Ōshima District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 7,072 and a density of 149.55 persons per km2. The total area was 47.29 km2. On October 1, 2004, Ōshima, along with the towns of Kuka KUKA is a German manufacturer of industrial robots and systems for factory automation. It has been predominantly owned by the Chinese company Midea Group since 2016. The KUKA Robotics Corporation has 25 subsidiaries, mostly sales and servi ..., Tachibana and Tōwa (all from Ōshima District), was merged to create the town of Suō-Ōshima. External links Official website of Suō-Ōshima(in Japanese) Dissolved municipalities of Yamaguchi Prefecture {{Yamaguchi-geo-stub ...
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Yamaguchi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 km2 (2,359 sq mi). Yamaguchi Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the north and Hiroshima Prefecture to the northeast. Yamaguchi is the capital and Shimonoseki is the largest city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, with other major cities including Ube, Shūnan, and Iwakuni. Yamaguchi Prefecture is located at the western tip of Honshu with coastlines on the Sea of Japan and Seto Inland Sea, and separated from the island of Kyushu by the Kanmon Straits. History Yamaguchi Prefecture was created by the merger of the provinces of Suō and Nagato. During the rise of the samurai class during the Heian and Kamakura Periods (794–1333), the Ouchi family of Suō Province and the Koto family of Nagato Province gained influence as powerful warrior clans. In the Muromachi period (1336—1573), Ouchi Hiroyo, ...
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List Of Towns In Japan
A town (町; ''chō'' or ''machi'') is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (''ken'' or other equivalents), city (''shi''), and village (''mura''). Geographically, a town is contained within a district. Note that the same word (町; ''machi'' or ''chō'') is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a legacy of when smaller towns were formed on the outskirts of a city, only to eventually merge into it. Towns See also * Municipalities of Japan * Japanese addressing system The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. When written in Latin alphabet, Lati ... References {{reflist External links DF 7 of 40">"Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows towns compared with other Japanese city types at p. 1 [PDF 7 of 40/now ...
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Takumi Shiiki
Takumi (匠) is a Japanese word meaning "artisan". It is also a masculine Japanese given name or a surname using various kanji characters. The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. Possible writings Takumi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: ;as a given name *匠, "artisan" *巧, "adroit" *工, "skill" *卓美, "eminent, beauty" *卓巳, "eminent, serpent" *巧海, "adroit, sea" *拓海, "clear (the land), sea" *拓未, "clear (the land), future" *拓巳, "clear (the land), serpent" *拓実, "clear (the land), fruit" ;as a surname *琢己 *宅見 People ;with the given name Takumi *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese professional baseball pitcher *, Japanese former racing cyclist *, Japanese footballer *Takumi Fujiwara (sailor) (born 1962), Japanese sailor *, Japanese film director *, Japanese former footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese former footba ...
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Chūgoku Region
The , also known as the region, is the westernmost region of Honshū, the largest island of Japan. It consists of the prefectures of Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, and Yamaguchi. In 2010, it had a population of 7,563,428. History ''Chūgoku'' literally means "middle country", but the origin of the name is unclear. Historically, Japan was divided into a number of provinces called ''koku'', which were in turn classified according to both their power and their distances from the administrative center in Kansai. Under the latter classification, most provinces are divided into , , and . Therefore, one explanation is that ''Chūgoku'' was originally used to refer to the collection of "middle countries" to the west of the capital. However, only five (fewer than half) of the provinces normally considered part of Chūgoku region were in fact classified as middle countries, and the term never applied to the many middle countries to the east of Kansai. Therefore, an alternative ...
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Towns In Yamaguchi Prefecture
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, more ...
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Japan Meteorological Agency
The , abbreviated JMA, is an agency of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It is charged with gathering and providing results for the public in Japan that are obtained from data based on daily scientific observation and research into natural phenomena in the fields of meteorology, hydrology, seismology and volcanology, among other related scientific fields. Its headquarters is located in Minato, Tokyo. JMA is responsible for gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts for the general public, as well as providing aviation and marine weather. JMA other responsibilities include issuing warnings for volcanic eruptions, and the nationwide issuance of earthquake warnings of the Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system. JMA is also designated one of the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centers of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It is responsible for forecasting, naming, and distributing warnings for tropical cyclones in the No ...
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