Motoyoshi Iwasaki
Motoyoshi may refer to: * Motoyoshi (name) *Motoyoshi District, Miyagi, a rural district in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan *Motoyoshi, Miyagi, a former town in Motoyoshi District *Motoyoshi Station was a railway station in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) until 2011. The station became a stop on the replacement bus rapid transit (BRT) line following the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake a ...

Motoyoshi (name)
Motoyoshi (written: 基義, 基吉 or 元良) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese poet and nobleman *, Japanese film director *, pen name of Shimizu Motoyoshi, Japanese writer and poet Motoyoshi (written: 本吉) is also a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese footballer {{given name, type=both Japanese-language surnames Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ...
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Motoyoshi District, Miyagi
Map showing original extent of Motoyoshi District in Miyagi Prefecturecolored area=original extent in Meiji period; green=present area is a rural district in Miyagi Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. At present, the district consists only of the town of Minamisanriku with a combined population () of 11,860 people, a population density of 72.6 people per km2 and an area of . All of the city of Kesennuma and a small part of the city of Tome and part of the city of Ishinomaki were formerly part of the district. History Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the district was within Mutsu Province and was under the control of the Date clan of Sendai Domain. In 1869, following the Meiji restoration, Mutsu Province was divided, with the area of Motoyoshi District becoming part of Rikuzen Province, and from 1872, part of Miyagi Prefecture. In the establishment of the modern municipalities system, the district was organized into one town (Kesennuma (気仙沼)) and sixteen vil ...
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Motoyoshi, Miyagi
was a town located in Motoyoshi District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 11,716 and a population density of 109.80 persons per km². The total area was 106.70 km². Motoyoshi was divided into four districts: Magome, Koizumi, Tsuya, and Ohya. Koizumi and Ohya were both home to spectacular beaches until the disaster of March 11. Tsuya constitutes "downtown" Motoyoshi. Fishing and farming are the main industries though a printing company is also a large local employer. Motoyoshi, like many of Japan's smaller towns, had a declining population as young people increasingly moved to the large regional cities of Kesennuma and Sendai, or further South to Tokyo. The Motoyoshi Board of Education also employs Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) that teach English at the local Elementary and Junior High Schools. A planned merger of municipalities was implemented on September 1, 2009; Motoyoshi was merged into the expanded city of Kesennuma ...
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