Yūbari

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Yūbari-shi
夕 張 市
Yūbari
Geographical location in Japan
Yūbari (Japan)
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Region : Hokkaidō
Prefecture : Hokkaidō
Coordinates : 43 ° 3 '  N , 141 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 3 '24 "  N , 141 ° 58' 26"  E
Basic data
Surface: 763.20 km²
Residents : 7908
(September 30, 2019)
Population density : 10 inhabitants per km²
Community key : 01209-2
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Flag / coat of arms of Yūbari
Tree : cherry
Flower : azalea
town hall
Address : Yūbari City Hall
4 - 2 Hon-chō
Yūbari -shi
Hokkaidō  068-0492
Website URL: www.city.yubari.lg.jp
Location of Yūbaris in Hokkaidō Prefecture
Location of Yūbaris in the prefecture

Yūbari ( Japanese 夕 張 市 , - shi ) is a city in the Sorachi sub-prefecture on the island of Hokkaidō .

The city is known for its yūbari honeydew melons , along with a notoriety as Japan's only bankrupt community . The Yūbari King generally costs 100 to 1000 € / piece and is a frequent “mid-year gift” ( 中元 , Chūgen ). Prices of up to 3 million yen have even been reached on steep slopes. The annually around 3 million pieces are grown on 280 hectares by over 200 farmers.

geography

Yūbari is east of Sapporo and south of Asahikawa .

history

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The city's development began in the 1890s with the start of coal mining by the Hokutan company, so that the population rose to 50,000 by 1920 and peaked in 1960 with 116,908 inhabitants. On April 1, 1943, he was appointed Shi.

In 1982, a mining accident in the previous year led to the bankruptcy of Hokutan Yūbari Shintankō ( 北 炭 夕 張 新 炭 Schließen) and the closure of their mines. In 1990 the city's last colliery was finally closed, making it its largest employer, which led to the departure of young people in particular. In March 2007, the city had only around 11,300 inhabitants, 43% of them over 65 years and less than 8% under 15 years, both negative records in all of Japan. The city then tried to revive the economy with tourism as the Coal History Village ( 石炭の歴史村 , Sekitan no rekishi-mura ) with various museums and attractions, the ski resort Mount Racey and an international film festival ( ゆうばり国際ファンタスティック映画祭, Yubari Kokusai Fantasutikku Eiga-sai ). All these measures did not bring the hoped-for success, so that on June 20, 2006 the community decided to obtain the status of “corporation under financial rehabilitation” ( 財政 再 建 団 体 , zaisei saiken dantai ), the equivalent of Japanese administrative law to bankruptcy. The community's debt had grown to 63.2 billion yen, 13 times the annual budget, with the annual balance sheet being positive for years through borrowing. In 2007 the application was approved by the central government, i. H. initiated bankruptcy proceedings whereby the city is practically under compulsory administration by the Department of Internal Affairs and has been required to pay off 35.3 billion yen in debt over 18 years. This is to be achieved by reducing the number of community employees to 30%, cutting wages by 30%, privatizing the municipal tourism businesses and the hospital, closing cultural and educational institutions (libraries, museums, public baths, schools) and eliminating grants (day-care centers, Senior transport, sewage disposal). The only city that has ever been declared a "corporation under financial rehabilitation" was Akaike (now: Fukuchi ), also a coal city, in 1992.

By March 2010, 3.1 billion yen had been repaid. In 2016, 49% of residents were over 65 years old. The public housing was concentrated in the city center, so that hundreds of seniors had to move. The forecasts assume that by 2026 only about 4500 people will live in the community. Rail traffic to the city was suspended at the end of March 2019. Mayor (as of 2016) of the city has been Naomichi Suzuki, who was the youngest mayor of Japan when he took office, since 2011.

traffic

The Shin-Yubari station in the district is Momojiyama Express train stop with connections to Sapporo and Kushiro . A 16 km long branch line led to Yūbari station in the city center until 2019 . From 1911 to 1987 the Ōyūbari railway line branched off at Shimizusawa station , which opened up a side valley with several coal mines. Another railway connection was the Yūbari railway line from Yūbari to Nopporo .

Yūbari is accessed by the Dōtō motorway and the national roads 274 and 452.

sons and daughters of the town

Town twinning

  • China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Fushun

Neighboring cities and communities

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Shrinking cities as a challenge . P. 83
  2. ↑ a b Florian Siebeck: Japan: Melons for millions. In: FAZ May 30, 2016, accessed May 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Shrinking cities as a challenge . Pp. 76-77
  4. ↑ a b Yubari set on reconstruction. In: The Japan Times Online. March 15, 2010, accessed March 5, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Shrinking cities as a challenge . Pp. 77-78
  6. ^ A b Tomoyo Okabe: Yubari's fiscal rehab just tip of city bankruptcy iceberg. In: The Japan Times Online. June 30, 2006, accessed March 5, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Shrinking cities as a challenge . Pp. 81-82
  8. ^ Lights go out in Yubari. In: NZZ Online. April 21, 2007, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Deserted Yubari tries creating new population nucleus in test case for Japan , Japan Times, September 26, 2016
  10. ↑ 斎 藤 徹: ＪＲ 石 勝 線 の 夕 張 支線 が 最終 運行. In: Asahi Shimbun. March 31, 2019, accessed May 25, 2020 .