Asahi (Chiba)

Asahi City Hall
Asahi-shi ; 旭市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kanto
Prefecture :	Chiba
Coordinates :	35 ° 43 ' N , 140 ° 39' E Coordinates: 35 ° 43 '14 " N , 140 ° 38' 48" E
Basic data
Surface:	129.91 km²
Residents :	64,302 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	495 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	12215-7
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Japanese black pine
Flower :	Garden hydrangea , camellia
town hall
Address :	Asahi City Hall ; Ni - 1,920 ; Asahi shi ; Chiba 289-2595
Website URL:	http://www.city.asahi.lg.jp
Location Asahis in Chiba Prefecture

Asahi ( Japanese 旭市 , - shi ) is a city in Chiba Prefecture in the east of Honshū , the main island of Japan .

geography

The city is located east of Tokyo on the Bōsō Peninsula on the Pacific .

history

The city of Asahi was created on July 1, 2005 from the merger of the communities of Hikata ( 干潟町 , -machi ) in Katori County , Iioka ( 飯岡町 , -machi ) and Unakami ( 海上町 , -machi ) in Kaijō County . The latter district was then dissolved.

Tōhoku tsunami 2011 in the district of Hiramatsu:
a: flood height (triangle)
b: damaged house

On March 11, 2011, the city was hit by the Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami . The tsunami reached great heights locally in Asahi. Residential areas on the Pacific coast suffered severe damage in Asahi, with 14 people killed and 2 others missing. 318 residential buildings in Asahi were completely destroyed and 847 others were partially destroyed. In the district of Hiramatsu (平松), which was densely built up with buildings, traces of water indicated a flood height of 6.3 m. In the Ashikawa district (足川), a flood height of 5.1 m and a run-up height of 7.9 m were measured.

traffic

Street:
- National Road 126
Train:
- JR Sōbu main line

Neighboring cities and communities

Town twinning

Chino , Japan
Nakagusuku , Japan

sons and daughters of the town

Shōya Tomizawa (1990-2010), motorcycle racer

Web links

Commons : Asahi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Yoshinobu Tsuji, Kenji Satake, Takeo Ishibe, Tomoya Harada, Akihito Nishiyama, Satoshi Kusumoto: Tsunami Heights along the Pacific Coast of Northern Honshu Recorded from the 2011 Tohoku . In: Pure and Applied Geophysics . tape 171 , no. 12 , 2014, p. 3183-3215 , doi : 10.1007 / s00024-014-0779-x . (Published online March 19, 2014). License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Here: p. 3194, Figure 13.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Yoshinobu Tsuji, Kenji Satake, Takeo Ishibe, Tomoya Harada, Akihito Nishiyama, Satoshi Kusumoto: Tsunami Heights along the Pacific Coast of Northern Honshu Recorded from the 2011 Tohoku . In: Pure and Applied Geophysics . tape 171 , no. 12 , 2014, p. 3183-3215 , doi : 10.1007 / s00024-014-0779-x . (Published online March 19, 2014).
↑ ^a ^b 平成 23 年 (2011 年) 東北地方太平洋沖地震（東日本大震災）について (第 157 報) ( Memento from March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) ( PDF ( Memento from March 18, 2018 on WebCite )), 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.

[TsujiEtAl2014_PAG171_3183-3215_p3194Fig13-1] Yoshinobu Tsuji, Kenji Satake, Takeo Ishibe, Tomoya Harada, Akihito Nishiyama, Satoshi Kusumoto: Tsunami Heights along the Pacific Coast of Northern Honshu Recorded from the 2011 Tohoku . In: Pure and Applied Geophysics . tape 171 , no. 12 , 2014, p. 3183-3215 , doi : 10.1007 / s00024-014-0779-x . (Published online March 19, 2014). License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Here: p. 3194, Figure 13.

[TsujiEtAl2014_PAG171_3183-3215-2] Yoshinobu Tsuji, Kenji Satake, Takeo Ishibe, Tomoya Harada, Akihito Nishiyama, Satoshi Kusumoto: Tsunami Heights along the Pacific Coast of Northern Honshu Recorded from the 2011 Tohoku . In: Pure and Applied Geophysics . tape 171 , no. 12 , 2014, p. 3183-3215 , doi : 10.1007 / s00024-014-0779-x . (Published online March 19, 2014).

[FDMA_2018-03-07-3] 平成 23 年 (2011 年) 東北地方太平洋沖地震（東日本大震災）について (第 157 報) ( Memento from March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) ( PDF ( Memento from March 18, 2018 on WebCite )), 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.