Shizuoka

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Shizuoka-shi
静岡 市
Shizuoka
Geographical location in Japan
Shizuoka (Japan)
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Region : Chūbu
Prefecture : Shizuoka
Coordinates : 34 ° 59 '  N , 138 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 34 ° 58 '32 "  N , 138 ° 22' 58"  E
Basic data
Surface: 1,411.90 km²
Residents : 691.185
(October 1, 2019)
Population density : 490 inhabitants per km²
Community key : 22100-7
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Shizuoka flag / coat of arms
Tree : Blossom dogwood
Flower : Hollyhock
Bird : Kingfishers
town hall
Address : Shizuoka City Hall
5 - 1 , Ote-machi
Aoi-ku , Shizuoka -shi
Shizuoka  420-8602
Website URL: http://www.city.shizuoka.jp
Location of Shizuokas in Shizuoka Prefecture
Location of Shizuokas in the prefecture

Shizuoka ( Japanese 静岡 市 , -shi ) is a city and the administrative seat of the Shizuoka prefecture of the same name on the southeast coast of Honshū , the main island of Japan . The region is at great risk from earthquakes .

The Shizuoka University was founded in the 1949th Shizuoka is the center of the Japanese tea trade, tea and oranges are grown in the area. The manufacture of lacquer, bamboo and basketry, as well as mechanical engineering, are also economically significant .

history

People settled here as early as 200 to 300 AD, and later a trade route ran here. The city was originally called Sumpu ( 駿府 ), a short form of Suruga Fuchū ( 駿河府中 dt. "Capital of Suruga"). Tokugawa Ieyasu , one of the three unifiers and founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate , had his retirement home here.

Since Fuchū can also mean treason ( 不忠 ), it was decided in 1869 to rename the city. The new name should be Shizuhata ( 賤 機 山 / 賎 機 山 ) Shizugaoka ( 賎 ヶ 丘 ) after the mountain or hill ( oka ) near Sumpu Castle . However, since the Kanji 賎 is “poor; means greedy ”, it was replaced by the homophonic 静 meaning“ calm, peaceful ”; In addition, the archaic particle ga was ultimately left out.

On April 1, 1889, he was appointed Shi (independent city).

During the Second World War , the city was bombed several times by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) between March 1945 and June 1945 . The attack with the most serious consequences was an area bombing with napalm bombs on June 19, 1945. The attacks destroyed around 66% of the city area and claimed 1,950 deaths. (see air raids on Japan )

politics

Political groups in parliament
(as of April 8, 2019; 2 vacancies)
      
A total of 46 seats
  • LDP : 24
  • Shiseikai ( 志 政 会 ): 7
  • Kōmeitō : 6
  • Sōsei Shizuoka ( 創 生 静岡 ): 4
  • KPY : 4
  • Midori no Tō Greens Japan (緑 の 党 Greens Japan ): 1

Shizuoka's mayor since the 2011 unified regional elections has been former Prefectural MP Nobuhiro Tanabe , who was re-elected for a third term in the 2019 unified elections .

The Shizuoka City Parliament has 48 regular members and was re-elected in March 2017. The faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost four members who were no longer running or who were voted out of office, but gained an absolute majority with nine newly elected independents.

The city of Shizuoka is represented by a total of 13 members in the 69-member parliament of Shizuoka Prefecture (Aoi district: 5, Suruga and Shimizu district: 4 each). After the prefectural parliamentary elections, which were also unified in 2019, five of them (as of May 2019) are members of the LDP-led “Liberal Democratic Reform Conference” faction, four of the ex-democratic faction “Land of Fuji” and three of the Kōmeitō faction, also from the city of Shizuoka the only (non-attached) communist in the prefecture .

For the lower house of the national parliament , Shizuoka city is covered by Shizuoka 1 and 4 constituencies. The constituency 1 in the west, which lies very close to the city, held in the election in 2017 , the Liberal Democrat Yōko Kamikawa . Yoshio Mochizuki (LDP) defended the constituency of Shizuoka 4, which in addition to the eastern part of Shizuoka also includes the cities of Fuji and Fujinomiya .

City structure

On April 1, 2003, Shizuoka and Shimizu merged to form the new Shizuoka. On April 1, 2005, Shizuoka was named a "city designated by government decree" ( seirei shitei toshi ) and the districts ( ku ) Aoi-ku, Suruga-ku, and Shimizu-ku were established.

The Shizuoka boroughs
Code
with check digit 		Surname Area (in km²) population Population
density (inh / km²)
Rōmaji Kanji Oct 1, 2017 1 October 1, 2018 2 Oct. 1, 2015 3
22101-5 Aoi-ku 葵 区 1073.76 250.232 253,593 236.17
22102-3 Suruga-ku 駿 河 区 73.05 211,476 212.419 2907.86
22103-1 Shimizu-ku 清水 区 265.09 233,708 238,977 901.49
22100-7 Shizuoka-shi 静岡 市 1411.90 695.416 704.989 499.32

Attractions

Entrance to Sumpu Castle
Shizuoka City Hall

traffic

education

Neighboring cities and communities

Population development

Census population
year population
2015 704.989
2010 716.197
2005 700,886
2000 469,695
1995 474.092
1990 472.196
1985 468,362
1980 458.341

sons and daughters of the town

Sports

Shizuoka is home to the Shimizu S-Pulse football club from the J. League , whose games are played at the Nihondaira Sports Stadium .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shizuoka City, Parliament: MPs by Faction (Japanese), accessed May 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ 静岡 市 議 選 自 民 、 単 独 過半数 へ 新市 議 ４８ 人 決 ま る . In: Mainichi Shimbun . March 28, 2017, Retrieved April 18, 2018 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Shizuoka Prefecture , Parliament: MPs by Constituency and Faction , accessed May 21, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Shizuoka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files