Iwanuma

Iwanuma is a metropolis positioned in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of one August 2017, the city had an anticipated populace of 44,738, and a population density of 740 persons according to km². The overall vicinity of the town is 60.45 rectangular kilometres. Iwanuma is on the convergence of ancient roads, the Tokaido and the Rikuzen-Hama Kaido. The place of gift-day Iwanuma was part of historic Mutsu Province, and the Takekoma Inari Shrine claims to had been based in 842 AD. Mention of Iwanuma Castle seems in early Muromachi duration files.

The location got here below the control of the Date clan of Sendai Domain at some point of the Edo duration, underneath the Tokugawa shogunate. The city of Iwanuma become installed on June 1, 1889 with the established order of the modern municipalities machine. The village of Okuma merged with Iwanuma on January 11, 1947, observed by Sengan and Tamaura on April 1, 1955. Iwanuma become raised to city reputation on November 1, 1971. The town changed into critically suffering from the tsunami related to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which resulted in 180 deaths.