was a
village
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located in
Kitakoma District,
Yamanashi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 787,592 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2 (1,724 sq mi). Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the n ...
,
Japan
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. Its territory includes Yama-Ogasawara, the village which gave its name to
Ogasawara Nagakiyo,
his clan of
samurai
The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...
, andeventuallyto the
Ogasawara Islands
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in the
North Pacific
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south of
Tokyo
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. (
Ogasawara itself is twinned with another locationHara-Ogasawara in nearby
Minami-Alpsdue to the similar names.)
As of 2003, the village had an estimated
population
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of 4,750 and a
density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the ratio of a substance's mass to its volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' (or ''d'') can also be u ...
of 169.04 persons per km
2. The total area was 28.10 km
2.
On November 1, 2004, Akeno, along with the towns of
Hakushū,
Nagasaka,
Sutama and
Takane, and the villages of
Mukawa and
Ōizumi (all from
Kitakoma District), was merged to create the city of
Hokuto.
References
External links
Akeno official website of Hokuto city(in Japanese)
Dissolved municipalities of Yamanashi Prefecture
Hokuto, Yamanashi
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