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Kokura Castle in central Kokura Kokura station Isetan department store, Kokura Emblem of Kokura. Kokura (小倉市, Kokura-shi) is an ancient castle town and the center of modern Kitakyushu, Japan. Kokura is also the name of the penultimate station on the southbound San'yō Shinkansen line, which is owned by JR West.
Population before 1920 was calculated based on information of family registries, while door-to-door censuses have been held every 5 years as of October 1 since 1920, except for 1945. As for prefectural populations before 1945, figures are only given for prefectures that officially constituted Japan Proper or Mainland Japan .
The short-lived Kokura Prefecture (小倉県, Kokura-ken) of Japan was founded in December 1871 after the clan system was abolished earlier that year. It was made up of three separate han territories (Chizuka, Kokura and Nakatsu ) which were, each for a short while in 1871 themselves, called ' prefectures '.
Kitakyushu (Japanese: 北九州市, Hepburn: Kitakyūshū-shi) is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.As of June 1, 2019, Kitakyushu has an estimated population of 940,978, making it the second-largest city in both Fukuoka Prefecture and the island of Kyushu after the city of Fukuoka.
1 October 1898 – 1945: Country: Empire of Japan: Branch: Imperial Japanese Army: Type: Infantry: Size: 25,000 men: Garrison/HQ: Kokura, Japan: Nickname(s) Broadsword Division: Engagements: Russo-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War World War II: Commanders; Notable commanders: Ando Sadami Uchiyama Kojiro Oi Shigemoto Shiba Goro Hajime ...
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
After peaking in 2008, Japan’s population has since shrunk steadily due to a declining birthrate. The country saw a record low of 771,801 births last year.
The population of Japan at the time of the Meiji Restoration was estimated to be 34,985,000 on January 1, 1873, [1] while the official original family registries (本籍, honseki) and de facto (or present registries (現住, genjū)) populations on the same day were 33,300,644 and 33,416,939, respectively.