Ogatsu
| Ogatsu-chō (incorporated) 雄 勝 町 |
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| Geographical location in Japan | |||
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| Region : | Tōhoku | ||
| Prefecture : | Miyagi | ||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 31 ' N , 141 ° 28' E | ||
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| Incorporated on: | Apr 1, 2005 | ||
| Incorporated in: | Ishinomaki | ||
| Surface: | 46.12 km² | ||
| Residents : | 4695 (March 1, 2005) |
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| Population density : | 102 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Community key : | 04563-2 | ||
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| Tree : | Daphniphyllum macropodum | ||
| Flower : | lily | ||
| Bird : | Blue Bear | ||
| Fish : | Physiculus maximowiczi | ||
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Ogatsu Town Hall 84 - 1 , OÁZA ogatsu, Aza Isehata ogatsu -chō, Monou-gun Miyagi 986-1334 |
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| Website URL: | www.town.ogatsu.miyagi.jp ( Memento from January 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) | ||
Ogatsu ( Jap. 雄勝町 , - chō ) was a municipality in the district Monou in the Japanese prefecture of Miyagi .
geography
Ogatsu is located along the small, narrow Ogatsu Bay ( 雄 勝 湾 , Ogatsu-wan ) on the Pacific east coast of Japan, with the central district of Ogatsu at the northern end of the bay.
history
The community emerged in the course of the establishment of the modern Japanese community on April 1, 1889 from the administrative combination of 12 villages - Ogatsuhama ( 雄 勝 浜 村 , - mura ), Myōjinhama ( 明 神 浜 村 , -mura ), Naburihama ( 名 振 浜 村 , -mura ), Funakoshihama ( 船 越 浜 村 , -mura ), Ōsuhama ( 大 須 浜 村 , -mura ), Kumazawahama ( 熊 沢 浜 村 , -mura ), Wakuhama ( 桑 浜 村 , -mura ), Tachihama ( 立 浜大. Ō , -mura ) 浜 村 , -mura ), Ojimahama ( 小島 浜 村 , -mura ), Mizuhama ( 水 浜 村 , -mura ) and Wakahame ( 分 浜 村 , -mura ) - to the village of Jūgohama ( 十五 浜 村 , -mura , literally: "15 beaches" ). On April 1, 1941, the city was named ( chō ) and was renamed Ogatsu.
On April 1, 2005, the community with the old independent city of Ishinomaki , as well as the district cities Monou , Kanan , Kahoku , Kitakami from the same district Monou and Oshika from the district Oshika became the new city of Ishinomaki. This led to the dissolution of the Monou district.
Ogatsu was hit very hard by the Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011. 280 people are on the official lists of tsunami victims, other tsunami victims had to wait days for a rescue. The Ogatsu population affected by the disaster decided against the local government's resettlement plan and decided to rebuild the city in its original location.
traffic
The main trunk road is the 398 national road to (the old) Ishinomaki and Yurihonjō . There is no connection to the rail network.
economy
The place is known in Japan for its rub stones for Indian ink and the scallop feast that used to take place every year .
The Ogatsu fishing site had around 280 fishermen. Furthermore, the breeding of oysters and scallops was of economic importance. All harvests and catches were sold to middlemen and wholesalers through cooperatives.
A fishing cooperative founded after the tsunami with around 2000 members and 25 fishermen bears the name OH! Guts! (freely translated: Ogatsu has courage!). The cooperative hopes to be able to distribute surpluses to the shareholders through direct marketing . These are to be achieved through fishing with the 10 remaining boats and through the yields from the harvest of scallops and later from the harvest of oysters.
education
In Ogatsu the primary schools ( 雄 勝 町 立 X 小学校 , Ogatsu-chōritsu X shōgakkō ) Ōsu, Funakoshi and Ogatsu, as well as the middle schools ( 雄 勝 町 立 X 中 学校 , Ogatsu-chōritsu X chūgakkō and Ogakkō) Ōs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Japan's fishermen are looking for ways out of the misfortune in: FAZ December 19, 2011, page 13
- ^ Relocation in the Tohoku Area . In: Federica Ranghieri, Mikio Ishiwatari (Ed.): Learning from Megadisasters - Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake . World Bank Publications, Washington, DC 2014, ISBN 978-1-4648-0153-2 , Chapter 33, pp. 307–315 , doi : 10.1596 / 978-1-4648-0153-2 ( work accessible online on Google Books [accessed on April 3, 2018]). , License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO.