Otsuchi

Otsuchi is a metropolis placed in Kamihei District, Iwate Prefecture, in the Tohoku place of northern Japan. The overall vicinity of the town was 2 hundred.42 rectangular kilometres 77.38 squaremi. Since 1973, the University of Tokyo has maintained a marine studies laboratory in Otsuchi. It is now referred to as the International Coastal Research Center ICRC and is controlled by using the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute. The area of gift-day Otsuchi became a part of historical Mutsu Province, dominated through the Nambu extended family from the Muromachi period. It turned into a part of Morioka Domain below the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate.

The city of Otsuchi turned into created within Kamihei District with the Meiji duration status quo of the municipality device on April 1, 1889. The city increased by annexation of the neighboring village of Kanazawa on April 1, 1955. Otsuchi has one public simple school and one public junior high college operated by using the metropolis government, and one public high school operated by means of the Iwate Prefectural Board of Education. The local economic system is based totally on commercial fishing and to a lesser volume on agriculture.