was a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

located in Inba District,

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...

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 ...

. Motono Village was created on April 1, 1914 through the merger of Hongo and Yawara Villages. The development of

Chiba New Town The Chiba New Town development was launched in the 1960s by the government of Chiba Prefecture in Japan and is located in the northern part of the prefecture. It includes parts of the cities of Funabashi, Shiroi, and Inzai. With an original targe ...

greatly accelerated the development of the village, which became a bedroom community for

Chiba Chiba may refer to: Places China * (), town in Jianli County, Jingzhou, Hubei Japan * Chiba (city), capital of Chiba Prefecture ** Chiba Station, a train station * Chiba Prefecture, a sub-national jurisdiction in the Greater Tokyo Area on ...

. As of February 2011, the village had an estimated

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of 9,055 and a

density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathematical ...

of 382 persons per km². The total area was 23.72 km². On March 23, 2010, Motono, along with the village of Inba (also from Inba District), was merged into the expanded city of

Inzai file:Inzai city hall.JPG, 260px, Inzai City Hall is a Cities of Japan, city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 105,463 in 42,388 households and a population density of 850 persons per km². The total are ...

External links

Inzai official website
Dissolved municipalities of Chiba Prefecture Inzai {{Chiba-geo-stub