17-517: Kiyosu ( 清須市 , Kiyosu-shi ) is a city in Aichi Prefecture , Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the city had an estimated population of 69,687 in 29,477 households, and a population density of 4,017 persons per km². The total area of the city is 17.35 square kilometres (6.70 sq mi). Kiyosu is located in far western Aichi Prefecture, in the western portion of the Nōbi Plain on
34-576: A mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 22 members. The city contributes two members to the Aichi Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Aichi District 5 of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Kiyosu is a regional commercial center with a mixed economy. Due to its proximity to the Nagoya metropolis, it
51-452: A municipality to be designated as a city: The designation is approved by the prefectural governor and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications . A city can theoretically be demoted to a town or village when it fails to meet any of these conditions, but such a demotion has not happened to date. The least populous city, Utashinai, Hokkaido , has a population of three thousand, while
68-674: A result of mergers and elevation to higher statuses, the number of villages in Japan is decreasing. As of 2006, 13 prefectures no longer have any villages: Tochigi (since March 20, 2006), Fukui (since March 3, 2006), Ishikawa (since March 1, 2005), Shizuoka (since July 1, 2005), Hyōgo (since April 1, 1999), Mie (since November 1, 2005), Shiga (since January 1, 2005), Hiroshima (since November 5, 2004), Yamaguchi (since March 20, 2006), Ehime (since January 16, 2005), Kagawa (since April 1, 1999), Nagasaki (since October 1, 2005), and Saga (since March 20, 2006). Atarashiki-mura (which
85-538: A town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaido , has over forty thousand. Under the Act on Special Provisions concerning Merger of Municipalities ( 市町村の合併の特例等に関する法律 , Act No. 59 of 2004) , the standard of 50,000 inhabitants for the city status has been eased to 30,000 if such population is gained as a result of a merger of towns and/or villages , in order to facilitate such mergers to reduce administrative costs. Many municipalities gained city status under this eased standard. On
102-524: Is a local administrative unit in Japan . It is a local public body along with prefecture ( 県 , ken , or other equivalents) , city ( 市 , shi ) , and town ( 町 , chō , sometimes machi ) . Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture. Villages are larger than a local settlement; each is a subdivision of rural district ( 郡 , gun ) , which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area. As
119-527: Is a local administrative unit in Japan . Cities are ranked on the same level as towns ( 町 , machi ) and villages ( 村 , mura ) , with the difference that they are not a component of districts ( 郡 , gun ) . Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947. Article 8 of the Local Autonomy Law sets the following conditions for
136-581: Is increasingly becoming a bedroom community . The Aichi Medical College for Physical and Occupational Therapy is also located in Kiyosu. Kiyosu has eight public elementary schools and four public junior high schools operated by the city government, and two public high schools operated by the Aichi Prefectural Board of Education. [REDACTED] Media related to Kiyosu, Aichi at Wikimedia Commons Cities of Japan A city ( 市 , shi )
153-687: The Oda clan and the base from which Oda Nobunaga consolidated his control over Owari Province during the Sengoku period . After the start of the Edo period , Kiyosu Castle was dismantled by order of Tokugawa Ieyasu , and most of the population relocated to Nagoya . By the start of the Meiji period , the area was a rural area organized into villages within Nishikasugai District of Aichi Prefecture. The town of Kiyosu
170-717: The Shōnai River . It is bordered by the Nagoya metropolis to the east. Most of the city has an altitude of under 10 meters above sea level. The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ). The average annual temperature in Kiyosu is 15.8 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1688 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 28.1 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.4 °C. Per Japanese census data,
187-451: The "city code" ( shisei , 市制) of 1888 during the "Great Meiji mergers" ( Meiji no daigappei , 明治の大合併) of 1889. The -shi replaced the previous urban districts /"wards/cities" (-ku) that had existed as primary subdivisions of prefectures besides rural districts (-gun) since 1878. Initially, there were 39 cities in 1889: only one in most prefectures, two in a few (Yamagata, Toyama, Osaka, Hyōgo, Fukuoka), and none in some – Miyazaki became
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#1732855192790204-535: The last prefecture to contain its first city in 1924. In Okinawa -ken and Hokkai-dō which were not yet fully equal prefectures in the Empire, major urban settlements remained organized as urban districts until the 1920s: Naha-ku and Shuri-ku, the two urban districts of Okinawa were only turned into Naha -shi and Shuri-shi in May 1921, and six -ku of Hokkaidō were converted into district-independent cities in August 1922. By 1945,
221-464: The number of cities countrywide had increased to 205. After WWII , their number almost doubled during the "great Shōwa mergers" of the 1950s and continued to grow so that it surpassed the number of towns in the early 21st century (see the List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan ). As of October 1 2018, there are 792 cities of Japan. Villages of Japan A village ( 村 , mura )
238-448: The other hand, the municipalities recently gained the city status purely as a result of increase of population without expansion of area are limited to those listed in List of former towns or villages gained city status alone in Japan . The Cabinet of Japan can designate cities of at least 200,000 inhabitants to have the status of core city , or designated city . These statuses expand the scope of administrative authority delegated from
255-651: The population of Kiyosu has grown steadily over the past 60 years. Kiyosu was the location of a post town ( Kiyosu-juku ) on the junction of the Nakasendō and the Minoji connecting Kamakura with Kyoto and the Ise Shrine during the Kamakura period . In the Muromachi period , the area was fortified with the construction of Kiyosu Castle , which subsequently became a stronghold of
272-543: The prefectural government to the city government. Tokyo , Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a metropolis ( 都 , to ) . The 23 special wards of Tokyo , which constitute the core of the Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated cities, towns and villages within its jurisdiction. Cities were introduced under
289-404: Was proclaimed on August 1, 1889, with the establishment of the modern municipalities system. The city of Kiyosu was established on July 7, 2005, from the merger of the former town Kiyosu with the towns of Shinkawa and Nishibiwajima (all from Nishikasugai District ). On October 1, 2009, the neighboring town of Haruhi (also from Nishikasugai District ) was merged into Kiyosu. Kiyosu has
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