Noshiro, Akita

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Noshiro (能代市; -shi) is a city located in Akita, Japan.

The current and the 2nd city of Noshiro was founded on March 21, 2006 between the mergers of the city of Noshiro (1st) and the town of Futatsui.

1 Population date
2 History
- 2.1 The creation of the City of Shirakami backfired
3 External links

[edit] Population date

As of April 30, 2006

Total area: 426.74 km²
Population: 63,950
Density: 149.85705581853118995172704691381 people/km²

[edit] History

The city (1st) was founded on October 1, 1940.

[edit] The creation of the City of Shirakami backfired

The city was originally scheduled to merge with all municipalities from the Yamamoto District(which will dissolve if the merger was completed) to form the new city of Shirakami. This merger plan had some serious problems with the UNESCO(Who enlisted the mountains which the name was came from) and the two prefectures (Akita and Aomori, where the mountains lie) Also, people from the Aomori Prefecture almost filed suit against Noshiro and all municipalities from Yamamoto District, Akita. On January 31, 2006, the merger committee was forced to dissolve.[1]

Recently, the town of Futatsui has announced that it will merge with the City of Noshiro to create a new city, also called Noshiro. The new city was created on March 21, 2006.[2]

Other than this merger, on March 20, 2006, Hachiryu, Kotoka, and Yamamoto have already merged together to create the new town of Mitane. And finally on March 27, 2006, the municipalities of Hachimori and Minehama is scheduled to merge together to create a new town called Happo.