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| The Niigata-shi, Niigata history inquiry |
The outline of Niigata-shi
Niigata-shi is a central city located in the central part of the Echigo
plain, and the mouth of a river in Shinano River and Agano River as the
greatest Honshu Sea of Japan side city in which a population of about 800,000
is held. It prospers as a base of Sea of Japan marine business at the Edo
period, and is specified as one of the opening-of-a-port 5 harbors with
Yokohama and Kobe in the Syukou treaty of commerce in 1858. In addition
to the Niigata harbor, high-speed ways including a Joetsu Bullet train
and the Kan-etsu way, the Niigata airport, etc. were improved, the admission
merger of the circumference 12 cities, towns and villages was carried out
in March, 2005, and it became a city in Japan where paddy field area is
the largest. It became the first and a "garden city type ordinance-designated
city" in April, 2007.
Niigata history
Although people begin to settle in a sand hill from the Jomon period, it
is said that most present city regions were still marine bottoms. From
the ancient times to medieval times, a port called Kanbara Tsu prospers
on this background. The port town which has Niigata in the Shinano River
mouth of a river, and has the name of a place of Nutari in the Agano River
mouth of a river appeared in the 16th century, and the eastern part [ western
part / centering on Niigata ] consisting mainly of the Nagaoka han and
nuttari became the Shibata han in the 17th century. And Niigata-cho became
Tenryou 1843 and the Kawamura Nagataka was appointed as the first Niigata
magistrate. It is specified as one of the opening-of-a-port 5 harbors by
U.S.-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1858, and the Niigata harbor
will be opened to a foreign craft by it in 1868. The new government army
occupied Niigata-cho in the Bosin war of the same year in the end of the
offensive and defensive battle by the side of a government, and the Niigata
prefecture was placed.
Sino-Japanese War rushes into outbreak and the Pacific War, and inflicts great damage also on Niigata-shi at the Showa term. And the rapid economic growth of the Showa 30s comes around, gasification study industry prospers in Niigata-shi, and, on the other hand, agriculture also changes to city agriculture in suburban areas after a repeated land improvement. It revives also from a repeated disaster of the Showa 30s, and urbanization of Niigata-shi ties up a sister and a friendship city with maintenance of a high-speed transportation network, construction of the Niigata airport, and also world 4 city, and is tackling international exchange. Niigata-shi will be in Heisei 17 in Heisei 13 to the first 500,000 people city in the Kurosaki-cho, and merger and Sea of Japan side,13 cities, towns and villages in Niigata-shi, Niitsu-shi, Shirone-shi, Toyosaka-shi, Kosudo-cho, Yokogoshi-cho, Kameda-cho, Iwamuro-mura, Nishikawa-cho, Ajikata-mura, Katahigashi-mura, Tsukigata-mura, and Nakanokuchi-mura merged, and the ordinance-designated city which bears the center of the ring Sea of Japan is born.
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