is a
town located in
Kamikawa Subprefecture,
Hokkaido,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
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As of September 2016, the town has an estimated
population of 8,092, and a
density of 33 persons per km
2. The total area is 247.06 km
2.
Higashikawa declared itself a in the 1980s and has done much to sponsor photography since, notably the annually awarded
Higashikawa Prize
The has been awarded to photographers by the "Phototown" of Higashikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan since 1985. The Overseas and Domestic Photographer prizes are of 500,000 yen and the New Photographer and Special prizes are of 300,000 yen.
The work of t ...
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Climate
References
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Towns in Hokkaido
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