is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Kanoashi District,
Shimane Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Shimane Prefecture is the second-least populous prefecture of Japan at 665,205 (February 1, 2021) and has a geographic area of 6,708.26 km2. Shimane Prefecture borders Yamaguc ...
,
Japan
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.
It was formed on October 1, 2005 from the merger of the town of
Muikaichi, and the village of
Kakinoki, both from
Kanoashi District.
As of March 1, 2017 the town has a
population
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of 6,231 and a
density
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of 19 persons per km². The area is 336.29 km².
Geography
Climate
Yoshika has a
humid subtropical climate
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(
Köppen climate classification
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''Cfa'') with very warm summers and cool winters. Precipitation is abundant throughout the year. The average annual temperature in Yoshika is . The average annual rainfall is with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around .
[ The highest temperature ever recorded in Yoshika was on 19 August 2020; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 8 February 2018.][
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Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Masuda in 2020 is 6,077 people.[ Masuda has been conducting censuses since 1920.
]
Notable people from Yoshika
*Hanae Mori
was a Japanese fashion designer. She was one of only two Japanese women to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian woman to be admitted as an official ''haute couture'' design house by the Fédé ...
, fashion designer
References
External links
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Yoshika official website
Towns in Shimane Prefecture
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