is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

located in Kumage District,

Yamaguchi Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 Square kilometre, km2 (2,359 Square mile, sq mi). Y ...

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. In 2016, the town had an estimated

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of 15,200 and a

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of 300 persons per km². The total area is 50.35 km². In 2018, a civil servant reported property tax misconduct by the mayor of Tabuse and the head of the tax collection management agency.

Geography

Neighbouring municipalities

Hikari may refer to: Places *Hikari Station, a station on Sanyō Main Line in Hikari, Yamaguchi * Hikari, Chiba, a former town in Sousa District, Chiba, Japan *Hikari, Yamaguchi, a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan People *Hikari (name), people and ...

* Iwakuni * Yanai *

Hirao is a town located in Kumage District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2016, the town has an estimated population of 12,643 and a density of . The total area is . Geography Neighbouring municipalities * Yanai * Kaminoseki * Tabuse ...

Transportation

Railway

JR West , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...

** San'yō Main Line:

Tabuse Station is a railway station operated by JR West on the Sanyō Main Line in Tabuse, Kumage District, Yamaguchi, Japan. Platforms History *September 25, 1897: Station opens as part of the newly built Hiroshima-Tokuyama segment of the Sanyō ...

Highway

Japan National Route 188 National Route 188 is a national highway of Japan connecting Iwakuni, Yamaguchi is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. History Iwakuni was formerly the castle town of the Iwakuni han, which was formed by Lord Hiroie Kikkawa af ...

Notable residents

Nobusuke Kishi was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the "Monster of the Shō ...

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from 1957 to 1960 *

Kitamura Sayo was the founder of the "dancing religion", Tensho Kotai Jingukyo. Early life Kitamura was born on January 1, 1900, in what is now Yanai city, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. She was the fourth daughter in a farming family of Jodo Shinshu Budd ...

, founder of

Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō (Japanese ) is a Japanese new religious movement which emerged from Shinto. It was established by Sayo Kitamura () (1900–1967), with activities beginning in 1945. The movement includes 450,000 members. Kitamura claime ...

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, Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972 and younger brother of Kishi

References

External links

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Tabuse official website
Towns in Yamaguchi Prefecture {{Yamaguchi-geo-stub