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Kamogawa (鴨川市, Kamogawa-shi) is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
As of March 2017, the city had an estimated population of 33,307, and a population density of 175 persons per km². The total area is 191.14 km².
The name of the city consists of two kanji characters: the first, kamo (鴨), meaning “duck”, and the second, kawa (川), meaning “river”.
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Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north at the Tone River, Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture to the west at the Edo River, the Pacific Ocean to the east and Tokyo Bay around its southern boundary. Most of Chiba lies on the hilly Boso Peninsula, a rice farming region: the east coast, known as the Kujūkuri Plain, is an especially productive area. The most populous zone, in the northwest of the prefecture, is part of the Kantō region that extends into the urban agglomeration of Tokyo and Saitama. The Kuroshio Current flows near Chiba, which keeps it relatively warm in winter and cooler in summer than neighbouring Tokyo.
Most Tokyo-bound visitors arriving on international flights land in Narita International Airport, which is situated in Narita in the north of the prefecture, and connected to Tokyo by the East Japan Railway’s Narita Express and the Keisei Electric Railway’s Skyliner.
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Kei car (or keijidōsha 軽自動車, “light automobile”, pronounced [keːdʑidoːɕa]), known variously outside Japan as Japanese city car, ultramini, or Japanese microcar, is the Japanese vehicle category for the smallest highway-legal passenger cars. Similar Japanese categories exist for microvans, and Kei trucks. These vehicles are most often the Japanese equivalent of the EU A-segment (city cars).
The kei car category was created by the Japanese government in 1949, and the regulations have been revised several times since. These regulations specify a maximum vehicle size, engine capacity of 660cc and power output, so that owners may enjoy both tax and insurance benefits. In most rural areas they are also exempted from the requirement to certify that adequate parking is available for the vehicle.
Kei cars have become very successful in Japan — consisting of over one third of domestic new car sales in fiscal 2016, despite dropping from a record 40% market share in 2013, after the government increased the kei-car tax by 50 percent in 2014. In 2018, seven of the 10 top-selling models were kei cars including the top four, all boxy passenger vans: Honda N-Box, Suzuki Spacia, Nissan Dayz and Daihatsu Tanto.
However, in export markets, the genre is generally too specialized and too small for most models to be profitable. Notable exceptions exist though, for instance the Suzuki Alto and Jimny models, which were exported consistently from c. 1980. Kei cars are not only popular with the elderly, they are also popular with youths because of their affordability.
Nearly all kei cars have been designed and manufactured in Japan, but a version of the French-made Smart was briefly imported and officially classified as a kei car.
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A microvan is a van or minivan that fits into Japanese kei car classification or similar, and is smaller than a mini MPV.
In China, these vehicles are nicknamed mian bao che (“bread loaf vehicle”) because of their shape, in a similar fashion, in several Hispanic American countries these vehicles are called Pan de Molde, which means “bread loaf”.
Outside China and Japan, microvans are notably common in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, Latin America and Middle East.
Microvans share similar characteristics with other sized MPVs by either seldomly or commonly consisting of sliding doors and carry 6/7/8 passengers. Since this category of a vehicle has fixed 3rd row seats and it implies that there is one vehicle for only passengers and another vehicle only for cargo and it doesn’t have the 3rd row dedicated for both passengers and cargo purposes these vehicle are not Multi Purpose Vehicles.
The kei car regulation is used only in Japan, though other Asian automakers also design microvans with similar characteristics. The microvans are commonly known as “kei one box” in Japan alongside their pick-up version twins known as kei truck.
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