Shinchi (Fukushima)

Shinchi Town Hall
Shinchi-machi ; 新地町
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Tōhoku
Prefecture :	Fukushima
Coordinates :	37 ° 53 ' N , 140 ° 55' E Coordinates: 37 ° 52 '35 " N , 140 ° 55' 11" E
Basic data
Surface:	46.70 km²
Residents :	8137 ; (April 1, 2020)
Population density :	174 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	07561-2
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	jaw
Flower :	Cherry Blossom
Bird :	Colored pheasant
Fish :	plaice
town hall
Address :	Shinchi Town Hall ; 30 Aza Toikakeda, Yachigoya; Shinchi- machi , Sōma-gun ; Fukushima 979-2792
Website URL:	http://www.shinchi-town.jp/
Location Shinchis in Fukushima Prefecture

Shinchi ( Japanese 新地町 , - machi ) is a Japanese city in Sōma County in Fukushima Prefecture .

geography

Shinchi is located on the east Japanese Pacific coast on Sendai Bay in the coastal region of Hamadōri as the northernmost municipality in Fukushima Prefecture. The municipality extends in the west to the beginning of the Abukuma highlands . The highest point of this in the community is the 429.3 m TP high Karō-san ( 鹿狼山 ). Several rivers have their source in this highland and flow through the municipality and flow into the Pacific. These are from north to south: Rachi-gawa ( 埒川 ), Mitaki-gawa ( 三滝川 ), Sunakoda-gawa ( 砂子田川 ), Nigori-gawa ( 濁川 ), and the Tatsuta-gawa ( 立田川 ) as a tributary of Jizō-gawa ( 地蔵川 ) which flows further south of Shinchi but has its mouth in the south of the village.

The Shinchi coal-fired power plant with an output of 2000 MW is located in the southeast at the port of Soma.

Shinchi is surrounded by Yamamoto in the north, Marumori in the west and Sōma in the south.

history

On April 1, 1889, the five villages of Yachigoya ( 谷地小屋村 , - mura ) in the north, Ogawa ( 小川村 , -mura ), Ōdohama ( 大戸浜 , -mura ), Imaizumi ( 今泉村 , -mura ) in the south, as well as Suginome ( 杉目村 , -mura ) in the hinterland in the Uda district to form the new village community Shinchi ( 新地村 , -mura , literally: "new territory"). The names of these have still been preserved as upper parish parts ( ōaza ). Seven years later, the districts of Uda and Namekata merged to form the new district of Sōma. On August 20, 1954, the villages of Komagamine ( 駒ヶ嶺村 , -mura ) in the south and Fukuda ( 福田村 , -mura ) in the north of Shinchi were added. On August 1, 1971, it was upgraded to a district city ( machi ).

2011 Tōhoku earthquake

The station building of the Shinchi ( 新地駅 , -eki ) station operated by JR East collapsed completely as a result of the disaster on March 11, 2011. The overpass was also damaged and a train on the Jōban line derailed (Photo: April 4, 2011)

On March 11, 2011, the city was hit by the Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami. The number of completely destroyed residential buildings is put at 439 and that of the partially destroyed at 138. The tsunami caused significant damage to the Jōban Line . In particular, a train was stopped and the Shinchi station building destroyed.

The city of Shinchi belongs to the Sōsō region in the northeast of Fukushima Prefecture , which, with a total of 200,000 inhabitants, was one of the areas of Japan most severely affected by the triple disaster .

The fire and disaster control authority reported 98 dead and 10 missing in Shinchi.

Measured against the total population of Shinchi, which was given as 8,224 in the 2010 census, the victim rate from the 2011 disaster was 1.3% if all dead and missing persons recorded in the 157th FDMA damage report of March 7, 2018 are included or 1.20% if the number of catastrophic deaths reported by the Reconstruction Agency (RA) is deducted from the registered victims, leaving 99 dead and missing. With the same data base, but based solely on the floodplain area of the tsunami in Natori, which covered an area of 11 km ² , the casualty rate was 2.12%.

Attractions

Sights include Mount Karō-san, Tsurushihama Beach and the Komagamine Castle ruins ( 駒ヶ嶺城 , -jō ).

traffic

The most important highways are the Jōban highway to Misato or Watari , the national road 6 to Tokyo or Sendai , and the national road 113 to Niigata or Nan'yō .

Connection to the rail network is via the JR East Jōban line to Tokyo or Iwanuma .

education

Shinchi is home to the Fukuda, Komagamine and Shinchi primary schools, the Shōei Middle School and the Shinchi High School.

Town twinning

Japan Date , sister city since July 21, 1981

Web links

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

10 万分 1 浸水範囲概況図 , 国土地理院 ( Kokudo Chiriin , Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, formerly: Geographical Survey Institute = GSI), www.gsi.go.jp: 地理院ホーム> 防災関連> 平成 23 年（2011年）東北地方太平洋沖地震に関する情報提供> 10 万分 1 浸水範囲概況図:

The GSI published here a map with Shinchi ( 浸水範囲概況図14 ) on which the 2011 flooded areas are drawn on the basis of reports of aerial photographs and satellite images from the Tōhoku tsunami, as far as was possible.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Soichiro Shimamura, Fumihiko Imamura, Ikuo Abe: Damage to the Railway System along the Coast Due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami . In: Journal of Natural Disaster Science . tape 34 , no. 1 , 2012, p. 105-113 , doi : 10.2328 / jnds.34.105 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c 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), March 7, 2018.
↑ Hisanori Fukunaga, Hiromi Kumakawa: Mental Health Crisis in Northeast Fukushima after the 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster . In: The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine . tape 237 , no. 1 , 2015, p. 41-43 , doi : 10.1620 / tjem.237.41 .
↑ 平成 22 年国勢調査 - 人口等基本集計結果 - （岩手県，宮城県及び福島県） ( Memento from March 24, 2018 on WebCite ) (PDF, Japanese), stat.go.jp (Statistics Japan - Statistics Bureau , Ministry of Internal Affairs and communication), 2010 Census, Summary of Results for Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, URL: http://www.stat.go.jp/data/kokusei/2010/index.html .
↑ Tadashi Nakasu, Yuichi Ono, Wiraporn Pothisiri: Why did Rikuzentakata have a high death toll in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster? Finding the devastating disaster's root causes . In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction . tape 27 , 2018, p. 21-36 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ijdrr.2017.08.001 . (Published online on August 15, 2017), here p. 22, table 2.
↑ 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 153 報） ( Memento of March 10, 2016 on WebCite ) , 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 153rd report, March 8, 2016.

[ShimamuraEtAl2012_JNDS_34_1_105-113-1] Soichiro Shimamura, Fumihiko Imamura, Ikuo Abe: Damage to the Railway System along the Coast Due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami . In: Journal of Natural Disaster Science . tape 34 , no. 1 , 2012, p. 105-113 , doi : 10.2328 / jnds.34.105 .

[FDMA_2018-03-07-2] 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), March 7, 2018.

[FukunagaEtKumakawa2015_TJEM_237_1_41-43-3] Hisanori Fukunaga, Hiromi Kumakawa: Mental Health Crisis in Northeast Fukushima after the 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster . In: The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine . tape 237 , no. 1 , 2015, p. 41-43 , doi : 10.1620 / tjem.237.41 .

[Census2010_stat-go-jp-4] 平成 22 年国勢調査 - 人口等基本集計結果 - （岩手県，宮城県及び福島県） ( Memento from March 24, 2018 on WebCite ) (PDF, Japanese), stat.go.jp (Statistics Japan - Statistics Bureau , Ministry of Internal Affairs and communication), 2010 Census, Summary of Results for Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, URL: http://www.stat.go.jp/data/kokusei/2010/index.html .

[NakasuEtAl2018_IJDRR_27_pp21-36_p22Tab2-5] Tadashi Nakasu, Yuichi Ono, Wiraporn Pothisiri: Why did Rikuzentakata have a high death toll in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster? Finding the devastating disaster's root causes . In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction . tape 27 , 2018, p. 21-36 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ijdrr.2017.08.001 . (Published online on August 15, 2017), here p. 22, table 2.

[FDMA_2016-03-08-6] 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 153 報） ( Memento of March 10, 2016 on WebCite ) , 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 153rd report, March 8, 2016.