was a

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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 Yamag ...

, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 6,124 and a

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of 30.84 persons per km². The total area was 198.57 km². On October 1, 2005, Muikaichi, along with the village of Kakinoki (also from Kanoashi District), were merged to create the town of

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Notable people from Muikaichi

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 Féd� ...

, fashion designer Dissolved municipalities of Shimane Prefecture {{Shimane-geo-stub