Ani Town Hall was a

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located in Kitaakita District,

Akita Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in ; "Tōhoku" in . Its population is approximately 966,000 (as of 1 October 2019) and its geographic area is 1 ...

, Japan. In 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 4,079 and a

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of 10.97 persons per km². The total area was 371.92 km². On March 22, 2005, Ani, along with the towns of Aikawa, Moriyoshi and Takanosu (all from Kitaakita District) merged to create the city of

Kitaakita is a city located in Akita Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 31,504 in 14,021 households, and a population density of 27 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Kitaakita is located in the mountain ...

In popular culture

* Satoru Noda's historical manga series ''

Golden Kamuy is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Noda. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' from August 2014 to April 2022, with its chapters collected in thirty-one ''tankōbon'' volumes. The s ...

'' features a major character, Genjirō Tanigaki, who comes from the village of Ani and is a member of the Tōhoku-indigenous

Matagi The are traditional winter hunters of the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, most famously today in the Ani, Akita, Ani area in Akita Prefecture, which is known for the Akita dogs. Afterwards, it spread to the Shirakami-Sanchi forest between Aki ...

population.

External links

Kitaakita official website
Dissolved municipalities of Akita Prefecture Kitaakita {{Akita-geo-stub