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Mizumaki (水巻町, Mizumaki-machi) is a town located in Onga District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Mizumaki
水巻町 | |
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Town | |
 Mizumaki Town hall | |
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 Location of Mizumaki in Fukuoka Prefecture | |
  Mizumaki Location in Japan | |
| Coordinates: 33°51′20″N 130°41′30″E | |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Kyushu |
| Prefecture | Fukuoka Prefecture |
| District | Onga |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11.03 km2 (4.26 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 28,830 |
| • Density | 2,600/km2 (6,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+09:00 (JST) |
| Website | www |
| Symbols | |
| Flower | cosmos |
| Tree | Ginkgo |
Education
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Facilities
Mizumaki has a train station on the Kagoshima Main Line, and another on the Fukuhoku Yutaka Line at Higashi-Mizumaki, both operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).
Mizumaki has a public library.
Festivals
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History
About 3000 years ago, the large Ko-Onga Bay covered the area where the town of Mizumaki now lies. Soil and silt carried by the Onga River gradually built up until a flat plain was built up in the area. People began living and planting rice crops on that ground. Terrible floods continually plagued the area.[1]
In the year 1889, the village of Mizumaki was formed when nine villages merged. From that time, the population expanded as workers moved in to work in the prosperous coal mines.
In 1940 Mizumaki officially became a town.
Mizumaki was the site of "Japan Coal Mining Company, Onga Coal Mine" which used forced laborers in the mine, particularly Dutch, American and British POWs in World War II.[2] A memorial called "The Memorial Cross " [3] commemorates the allied POWs who died during the war.
References
- Onga river http://www.town.mizumaki.lg.jp/eng/about/about03.htm Archived 2009-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-08-14
- "Traces of war: Dutch and Indonesian survivors".
- The Memorial Cross http://www.town.mizumaki.lg.jp/eng/exchang/exc.htm Archived 2009-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-08-14
External links
Media related to Mizumaki, Fukuoka at Wikimedia Commons- Mizumaki official website (in Japanese)
- English homepage on official website
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На других языках
[de] Mizumaki (Fukuoka)
Mizumaki (jap. 水巻町; -machi) ist eine Gemeinde im Landkreis Onga in der Präfektur Fukuoka, Japan.- [en] Mizumaki, Fukuoka
[ru] Мидзумаки
Мидзумаки (яп. 水巻町 Мидзумаки-мати) — посёлок в Японии, находящийся в уезде Онга префектуры Фукуока. Площадь посёлка составляет 11,03 км²[1], население — 28 973 человека (1 августа 2014)[2], плотность населения — 2626,75 чел./км².Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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