Ofunato

Ofunato is a town positioned in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of one April 2017, the town had an anticipated populace of 37,562, and a populace density of 116.5 persons in keeping with km2 in 15,017 households. The total region of the town is 322.50 square kilometres. The region of gift-day Ofunato changed into part of ancient Mutsu Province, and has been settled considering at least the Jomon period, and numerous shell middens round Ofunato Bay had been excavated by using archaeologists.

During the Sengoku length, the area changed into dominated by means of numerous samurai clans before coming beneath the control of the Date clan at some stage in the Edo length, who dominated Sendai Domain below the Tokugawa shogunate. The modern village of Ofunato was created within Kessen District, Iwate on April 1, 1889. The 1896 Sanriku earthquake brought about a 25-meter tsunami which killed 27,000 humans within the place. Ofunato turned into accelerated to town status on April 1, 1932.

The 1933 Sanriku earthquake had a value of 8.Four and caused a 28-meter tsunami which killed 1522 humans. The neighboring town of Sakari and the villages of Akasaki, Takkon, Massaki, Ikawa and Hikoroichi merged with Ofunato on April 1, 1952, forming the city of Ofunato. The metropolis became internationally well-known whilst it become hit by way of a tsunami as a result of the Valdivia earthquake in Chile May 22, 1960. On November 15, 2001, the town of Sanriku from Kesen District became merged into Ofunato.