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Iwakuni City Hall Kintai Bridge Iwakuni city center. Iwakuni (岩国市, Iwakuni-shi) is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2023, the city had an estimated population of 127,512 in 65182 households and a population density of 157 persons per km 2. [1] The total area of the city is 873.72 square kilometres (337.35 sq mi).
A native of Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture and graduate of Hosei University, he was elected to the city assembly of Iwakuni in 1999, to the Yamaguchi Prefectural Assembly in 2003, and to the House of Representatives in 2005. In 2008 he was elected the Mayor of Iwakuni.
Shimonoseki Shunan Iwakuni The following table lists the 17 cities and towns in Yamaguchi with a population of at least 5,000 on October 1, 2020, according to the 2020 Census. The table also gives an overview of the evolution of the population since the 1995 census.
Yamaguchi is the capital and Shimonoseki is the largest city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, with other major cities including Ube, Shūnan, and Iwakuni. [3] Yamaguchi Prefecture is located at the western tip of Honshu with coastlines on the Sea of Japan and Seto Inland Sea , and separated from the island of Kyushu by the Kanmon Straits .
Weekly News Nishi no Kaze ; Defunct newspapers of Kantō region ... Bōchō Shimbun (Iwakuni, 1964 – 2006) Okayama Nichinichi Shimbun (Okayama, 1946 – 2011)
[1]: 40 In the same year, Yamaguchi Radio opened a broadcast relay station in Iwakuni City in the east. [ 1 ] : 41 In 1961, the television division of Radio Yamaguchi obtained a television broadcast license for Shimonoseki (the closed area), making Yamaguchi Radio's television programs also available in the western Yamaguchi Prefecture and ...
was an aviation accident that occurred on September 27, 1950, when a US Air Force B-26 Invader crashed near the Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The aircraft, having taken off from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, crashed into a residential area, killing one crew member and three local residents, and injuring five others ...
Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni or MCAS Iwakuni (岩国飛行場, Iwakuni hikōjō) (IATA: IWK, ICAO: RJOI) is a joint Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces and United States Marine Corps air station located in the Nishiki river delta, 1.3 NM (2.4 km; 1.5 mi) southeast of Iwakuni Station [1] in the city of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.