Yamada

Yamada is a metropolis in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of one March 2017, the town had an expected population of 16,136. And a population density of 61.4 men and women consistent with km2, in 6,668 families. The general vicinity of the metropolis is 262.81 square kilometres. The vicinity of gift-day Yamada become a part of historic Mutsu Province, ruled by using the Nambu clan from the Sengoku length. It became part of Morioka Domain beneath the Tokugawa shogunate all through the Edo length.

Yamada was the location of the 1643 Breskens Incident, wherein the Dutch ship Breskens, part of the De Vries expedition, made unauthorised visits to Yamada and turned into captured by Japanese authorities. With the Meiji length status quo of the contemporary municipalities device, the city of Yamada changed into created inside Higashihei District on April 1, 1889. Higashihei District changed into merged into Minamihei District on March 29, 1896. On March 1, 1955, Yamada annexed the neighboring villages of Funakoshi, Orikada, Osawa and Toyomane to reach is present borders.