Hiroshima City is a city located in the Aki region in western Hiroshima Prefecture. It is the prefectural capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and is an ordinance-designated city. The population is about 1.195 million. Located in the central western part of the Chugoku region, the city area consists of eight wards: Naka Ward, Higashi Ward, Minami Ward, Nishi Ward, Asaminami Ward, Asakita Ward, Aki Ward, and Saeki Ward. It is also the city with the largest population in the Chugoku / Shikoku region, and is a branch economic city / regional center city in the Chugoku region where many branches of large companies and branch offices of government offices are located. After the atomic bombing in 1945, the number of deaths increased temporarily and the population decreased significantly. Nearly 20% of Hiroshima’s population has declined, but after the war it has revived brilliantly, centered on the heavy industry and the automobile industry such as Mazda, and is now a major industrial city in Japan. On April 1, 1980, it was designated as the 10th ordinance-designated city in Japan, following Sapporo, Kawasaki, and Fukuoka (all three cities were designated in April 1972). The population exceeded 1 million in March 1985 and is now the 10th largest city in the country. It boasts the largest population in the Chugoku-Shikoku region and is the only one million city in the region. In addition, along with Sapporo, Sendai, and Fukuoka, it plays a part in the central regional cities. The only (narrowly defined) subway does not run in the central cities of the region, and the city transportation is carried by the Hiroshima Electric Railway and buses. In particular, trams are the largest in Japan in terms of scale and number of passengers, making them the number one tram town in Japan. The target of postwar reconstruction has shifted from rebuilding and improving basic infrastructure such as living and industrial infrastructure to culture and physical education. Hiroshima Reconstruction Expo held in 1958 (S33), Hiroshima Prefectural Library opened in 1960 (S35), Hiroshima Port 10,000 ton berth completed, 1962 (S37) Hiroshima Prefectural Gymnasium opened, 1965 (S40) Hiroshima Women’s University Opened, 1968 (S43) Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art opened. 1961: Hiroshima Airport (later Hiroshima West Airfield, now Hiroshima Heliport) opens.
May 12, 1962: Japanese National Railways Sanyo Main Line Mihara-Hiroshima section electrified
October 1: Japanese National Railways Sanyo Main Line Hiroshima Station-Yokogawa Station electrification.
July 25, 1964: Yokogawa Station-Ogori Station (currently Shin-Yamaguchi Station) is electrified, and the Sanyo Main Line is fully electrified.
August 18, 1965: Established Hiroshima City Song (3rd generation, current).
1966: National Highway No. 2 Shin-Hiroshima Bypass opens from Taisho, Kaita-cho to Kanon, Nishi-ku via Niho, Kokutaiji, Takanobashi, and Funairi.
1967: Completed the Ota River Flood Bypass by widening the Yamate River and filling the Fukushima River.
March 1, 1969: Higashi-Hiroshima Station (freight station, now Hiroshima Freight Terminal Station) opened.
1970: A plan to build the Hiroshima Municipal Subway emerges.
April 1974: Nishi-Hiroshima Bypass Kogokita-Kanonhonmachi opened.
March 10, 1975: Sanyo Shinkansen Hiroshima Station opened.
Shimane Prefecture is a prefecture located in the Chugoku region (San’in region) of Japan. The prefectural office is located in Matsue City. The remote islands of Oki Islands and Takeshima are also included in the territory of Shimane Prefecture. The old country names were Izumo, Iwami, and Oki, and even today they are often divided into three regions: Izumo, Iwami, and Oki. In Japan, it has the second smallest population after Tottori prefecture. The name of Shimane Prefecture is due to the fact that the area around Matsue Castle, where the prefectural office was located, belonged to the former Shimane-gun (Shimane-gun). It is said that Shimane’s name comes from the name of Yatsuka Mizuomi Tsunomei in “Izumo Kuni Fudoki”. The castle of Matsue straddles Shimane-gun (north of the Ohashi River, north of the bridge) and Ou-gun (south of the Ohashi River, south of the bridge) where Matsue Castle is located.
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