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23-600: It is Japan's largest shipbuilder both in terms of tonnage and sales revenue, with design, research, construction and ship repair facilities in Imabari , Marugame and at seven other integrated dockyard and manufacturing facilities across the Seto Inland Sea region. Imabari Shipbuilding's products include the design, manufacture, purchase and sale of merchant ships, offshore engineering and ship life cycle services. Imabari Shipbuilding also controls various subsidiaries related to

46-584: A population density of 360 persons per km². The total area of the city is 468.19 square kilometres (180.77 sq mi). The population is the second largest in Ehime Prefecture after Matsuyama City . Imabari is located in central Ehime Prefecture, facing the Seto Inland Sea to the east and northwest, and including a portion of the Geiyo Islands in between Shikoku and Honshu , including Ōmishima , Ōshima and Hakatajima. The land portion occupies

69-524: A unicameral city council of 28 members. Imabari, together with Kamijima, contributes six members to the Ehime Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Ehime 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Imabari is home to a large number of shipbuilding and maritime servicing facilities along the northern and eastern coastlines of the city. Facilities include

92-454: A new joint venture with Japan Marine United ('JMU') (with 49% of shares) named Nihon Shipyard , covering all ship types except LNG tankers. Nihon Shipyard is headquartered in Tokyo, with a staff of 500. In parallel, Imabari Shipbuilding bought 35% of JMU's capital. Nihon Shipyard designs, builds and promotes zero-emission vessels. The cooperation between these two Japanese companies make it one of

115-502: A small container port and maintenance and construction shipyards belonging to Imabari Shipbuilding , Japan's largest ship builder. The port has also long been a trading center within Shikoku. The city is home to a large cotton processing industry, with particular emphasis on towels. The city produces around 60% of the towels made in Japan. As of 1998, there were over 200 towel production plants in

138-436: A total of about 4 million tons, six times more than Mitsubishi Heavy and seven times more than Mitsui Engineering. Its revenue in that year totaled 373.4 billion yen ($ 3.43 billion). Globally, it boasts the fourth-largest market share, after South Korean rivals Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. First established in 1901, shipbuilding facilities in Ehime Prefecture were consolidated under

161-696: Is located in the city, as is the Okayama University of Science Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. [REDACTED] Shikoku Railway Company - Yosan Line The Kurushima-Kaikyō Bridge , a toll road suspension bridge and integrated expressway , connects Imabari and Shikoku across a series of islands in the Seto Inland Sea to Hiroshima Prefecture . Opened in 1999, the bridge is part of the Shimanami Kaidō , and features an expressway for road vehicles as well as dedicated pedestrian and cycle lanes. Imabari

184-537: Is now the city of Iyo and town of Masaki with Kumi Province, Kazehaya Province, Touma Province, and Koichi Province each ruled by its own kuni no miyatsuko . The Geiyo Islands in the Seto Inland Sea were considered part of Aki Province into the Edo Period . During the Heian period , the coastal areas of the province were part of the stronghold of Fujiwara no Sumitomo , who led a rebellion against Imperial authority. During

207-409: Is twinned with: FC Imabari , current men's association football league, J3 League , FC Imabari Ladies, women's association football league, Nadeskiko League , both home stadium at Thanks Dream Stadium. ( Arigatou Yume Stadium ) Iyo Province Iyo Province ( 伊予国 , Iyo-no kuni ) was a province of Japan in the area of northwestern Shikoku . Iyo bordered on Sanuki Province to

230-611: The Muromachi period , a branch of the Saionji family was appointed as shugo by the Ashikaga shogunate , but was constantly being invaded his more powerful and aggressive neighbors. The Saionji survived by the fluid loyalties and fierce resistance, but were eventually overcome by Chōsokabe Motochika , who was in turn overthrown by the forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi . Under the Tokugawa shogunate ,

253-537: The castle town which forms the core of the modern city. The domain was subsequently ruled by a cadet branch of the Hisamatsu-Matsudaira clan until the end of the Edo period . The town of Imabari was established on December 15, 1889, with the creation of the modern municipalities system. The town merged with the village of Hiyoshi on February 11, 1920, to become the city of Imabari. Industrialization progressed rapidly in

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276-690: The Imabari Shipbuilding name in 1942. Over its existence, Imabari has acquired some of its competitors, including, lately, in 2018, the Japanese shipbuilder Minaminippon Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Minaminippon is based in Ōita Prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu , and was formerly controlled by the Mitsui group through its affiliates Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (25 percent) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (24 percent). On January 1, 2021, Imabari Shipbuilding (with 51% of shares) merged into

299-516: The city. The city also specializes in the dyeing industry. Imabari has 26 public elementary schools and 15 public middle schools operated by the city government and one private combined elementary/middle school. The city has six public high schools operated by the Ehime Prefectural Board of Education and five private high schools. The prefecture also operates one special education school for the handicapped. The Imabari Meitoku Junior College

322-441: The early 20th century, centered around the textile and shipbuilding industries. The city was bombed three times in the final months of World War II , with the first air raid on April 24, 1945, killing 68 civilians, the second on May 8 killing 29 (mostly students of Imabari Girls' High School) and the third and largest on August 5, during which 454 people died and 80% of the city center was destroyed. The city reconstructed rapidly in

345-465: The largest marine engineering and shipbuilding companies in the world. Imabari Shipbuilding currently operates nine ship building and maintenance facilities as well as marketing offices in Tokyo and Amsterdam. Plans were announced in January 2015 to build a new purpose-built dry dock facility at Marugame for the fabrication of a new generation of container ships in excess of 20,000 TEU . The facility

368-576: The northeast, Awa to the east, and Tosa to the south. Its abbreviated form name was Yoshū ( 予州 ) . In terms of the Gokishichidō system, Iyo was one of the provinces of the Nankaidō circuit. Under the Engishiki classification system, Iyo was ranked as one of the "upper countries" (上国) in terms of importance, and one of the "far countries" (遠国) in terms of distance from the capital. The provincial capital

391-510: The northeastern part of the Takanawa Peninsula. The highest elevation in the city is Mound Kirō on Ōshima Island at 307.8 meters. Ehime Prefecture Imabari has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light snowfall. The average annual temperature in Imabari is 15.4 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1740 mm with September as

414-406: The post-war era. On January 16, 2005, the towns of Hakata , Kamiura , Kikuma , Miyakubo , Namikata , Ōmishima , Ōnishi , Tamagawa , and Yoshiumi , and the villages of Asakura and Sekizen (all from Ochi District ) were merged into Imabari. As a result, there are no more villages within Ehime Prefecture. Imabari has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and

437-481: The shipbuilding and shipping industries, including one of the largest Japanese ship owning, managing, and leasing (chartering) companies Shoei Kisen Kaisha, which manages and provides ships to shipping companies under long term charterparty agreements. The company is privately held and tightly controlled and run by the Higaki family. In 2016 it reported commercial vessel production as measured by cargo-carrying capacity for

460-506: The wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.4 °C, and lowest in January, at around 5.9 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Imabari has been declining since the 1980s. The area in which Imabari is situated is part of ancient Iyo Province and had long been a strategic point for the control of the Seto Inland Sea. In the Sengoku period it

483-477: Was completed in 2017, measuring 610 meters (2,000 feet) long, 80 meters (260 feet) wide, and 11.7 meters (38 feet) deep, and costing 400 billion yen. Imabari, Ehime Imabari ( 今治市 , Imabari-shi ) is a city in Ehime Prefecture , Japan . It is the second largest city in the prefecture. As of 31 August 2022 , the city had an estimated population of 152,111 in 75,947 households and

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506-569: Was dominated by the Murakami clan, a maritime clan who engaged in shipping or as pilots for vessels through the complex channels and rocky straits in between Shikoku and Honshu, but who also occasionally acted as pirates or as the mercenary naval force for a powerful warlord. After the Battle of Sekigahara , Tokugawa Ieyasu installed his general Tōdō Takatora as daimyō of the 200,000 koku Imabari Domain . Tōdō Takatora constructed Imabari Castle and

529-519: Was located in what is now the city of Imabari , but its exact location is still unknown. The ichinomiya of the province is the Ōyamazumi Shrine located on the island of Ōmishima in what is now part of Imabari. The people spoke Iyo dialect . Iyo Province was formed by the Ritsuryo reforms by combining the territories of the Iyo-no- kuni no miyatsuko ( 伊余国造 ) , who ruled a territory centered on what

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