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35-458: Tatsuno ( たつの市 , Tatsuno-shi ) is a city in Hyōgo Prefecture , Japan. As of 31 May 2022, the city had an estimated population of 74,414 in 31119 households and a population density of 6200 persons per km. The total area of the city is 49.42 square kilometres (19.08 sq mi). The city's name is spelled "たつの", using hiragana , but the name of Tatsuno Station uses

70-604: A mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 22 members. Tatsuno, together with the town of Taishi, contributes one member to the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly . In terms of national politics, the city is part of Hyōgo 12th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Tatsuno has traditionally been famous for production of sōmen and soy sauce in Japan. However, much of

105-485: A total of 9,132,050 yen in expenses for political activities. On July 6, 2016, the Kōbe District Court handed down a prison with hard labour sentence of 3 years and a suspended sentence of 4 years after it became an unusual public trial such as detention procedures being adopted because he refused to appear at the first public trial. Furthermore, on the occasion of the scandal of Nonomura being scooped, coupled with

140-530: Is 14.4 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1519 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.7 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.7 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Tatsuno has remained relatively constant over the past 40 years. The Tatsuno area was part of ancient Harima Province and was an important location for traffic on

175-481: Is a separate electoral district. In 2014 the assembly voted to reduce the size of the assembly from 89 to 87, which resulted in a merger of the Sayō and Akō-Akō districts, as well as Takasago district's representation being reduced from two members to one. On July 1, 2014, triggered by the press conference by Ryutaro Nonomura , then assemblymember, who was accused of the unauthorized use of expenses for political activities in

210-623: Is also one private elementary school and one private middle school. The prefecture also operates two special education schools for the handicapped. [REDACTED] JR West – San'yō Main Line [REDACTED] JR West – Kishin Line Hy%C5%8Dgo Prefecture Kobe is the capital and largest city of Hyōgo Prefecture, and the seventh-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Himeji , Nishinomiya , and Amagasaki . Hyōgo Prefecture's mainland stretches from

245-482: Is an island that separates the Inland Sea and Osaka Bay , lying between Honshu and Shikoku . Summertime weather throughout Hyōgo is hot and humid. As for winter conditions, the north of Hyōgo tends to receive abundant snow, whilst the south receives only the occasional flurry. Hyōgo borders on Osaka Prefecture , Kyoto Prefecture , Tottori Prefecture and Okayama Prefecture . As of 31 March 2008, 20% of

280-633: Is in Harima. There are 163 public and 52 private high schools within Hyogo prefecture. Of the public high schools, some are administered by the Hyogo prefectural government, whilst the others are administered by local municipalities. The sports teams listed below are based in Hyōgo. Baseball Basketball Football (soccer) Rugby Volleyball A popular troupe of Takarazuka Revue plays in Takarazuka . Arima Onsen in

315-446: Is now the city of Kobe. There the capital remained for five months. Himeji Castle , a UNESCO World Heritage Site , is in the city of Himeji. Southern Hyōgo Prefecture was severely devastated by the 6.9 Mw Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995, which destroyed major parts of Kobe and Awaji , as well as Nishinomiya and Ashiya and the neighboring Osaka Prefecture , killing nearly 6,500 people. Hyōgo has coastlines on two seas: to

350-405: Is the prefectural parliament of Hyōgo Prefecture . The assembly's 87 members are elected every four years in 40 districts by single non-transferable vote . Nine of the electoral districts correspond with the wards of Kobe city and the remaining 31 districts are made up of the cities and districts (towns and villages) of the prefecture. The electoral district that represents the city of Himeji

385-469: Is the largest, electing 8 representatives to the assembly. The assembly is responsible for acting as a balance against the Governor of Hyōgo Prefecture who is responsible for the administration of the prefecture. This role includes enacting and amending prefectural ordinances, approving the budget and checking the administration. The 2015 Hyogo prefectural election took place on April 12, 2015, as part of

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420-671: Is thought to have changed to "龍野". Nomi no Sukune Shrine is located at the place said to be his grave. Tatsuno is located in southwestern Hyōgo Prefecture extending largely south to north. The city's northern region is mountainous, the southern region faces the Seto Inland Sea , and the Ibo River runs through from north to south. Tatsuno has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Tatsuno

455-411: The 2015 unified local elections . It was the first election following a reduction in the number of members from 89 to 87. Elections were held in 23 districts and representatives for the remaining 17 districts were elected unopposed. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) maintained their position as the largest group in the assembly with a total of 40 seats (official candidates plus independents endorsed by

490-740: The Izumo Kaidō highway running along the Ibo River, and was the location of Kinoyama Castle , a stronghold of the Akamatsu clan in the Muromachi period . After Oda Nobunaga gained supremacy during the Sengoku period , the area became the territory of the Ikeda clan , who ruled Himeji Domain in the early Edo period . Following Ikeda Toshitaka 's death, his lands were divided by the Tokugawa shogunate and Honda Masatomo ,

525-504: The Sea of Japan to the Seto Inland Sea , where Awaji Island and a small archipelago of islands belonging to the prefecture are located. Hyōgo Prefecture is a major economic center, transportation hub , and tourist destination in western Japan, with 20% of the prefecture's land area designated as Natural Parks . Hyōgo Prefecture forms part of the Kobe metropolitan area and Osaka metropolitan area ,

560-604: The Prefectural Assembly brought an accusation against Nonomura to the HPP on the crime of making of false documents/uttering of same in the joint names of each faction representative, and in the subsequent criminal investigation , it became clear that he had carried out one-day Fabricated business trips spanning 197 times a year, buying cash vouchers under the guise of "postage fees" and privately using them, falsification of his credit card usage statement, etc. In January 2015,

595-711: The United States on October 22, 1963, the first such arrangement between Japan and the United States. In 1981, a sister state agreement was drawn up between Hyogo and the state of Western Australia in Australia . To commemorate the 10th anniversary of this agreement in 1992, the Hyogo Prefectural Government Cultural Centre was established in Perth . Hyogo Prefectural Assembly The Hyogo Prefectural Assembly ( 兵庫県議会 , Hyōgo-ken gikai )

630-401: The assembly. As of February 2016, the assembly was composed as follows: Most electoral districts correspond to the current cities of the prefecture, but several districts correspond to former districts which are no longer administrative units but are still used in the addresses of regional areas. Kobe, the largest city in the prefecture, is divided such that each of the city's nine wards

665-493: The city is rural, with rice farming and commercial fishing playing roles in the economy. The city is increasing becoming a bedroom community , with 25.0% of those commuting to work go to Himeji (2010 National Census). Tatsuno has 16 public elementary schools and five public middle schools operated by the city government and two public high schools operated by the Hyōgo Prefectural Department of Education. There

700-415: The city the moniker of"Little Kyoto of Harima". The town of Tatsuno was established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. On October 1, 2005, the towns of Ibogawa , Mitsu and Shingū (all from Ibo District ) were merged into Tatsuno. To reflect the new character of the city, the kanji characters in the city's name were changed from 龍野市 to たつの市 . Tatsuno has

735-517: The fact that it was an extremely strange spectacle in which the person in question answered questions while wailing in a loud voice at a press conference, they called it a big topic in the world, and not only was it made into a joke by comedians on Variety shows, but it was also to the extent that productions like parodies of the same conference were done in some of the TV dramas and TV animations . Moreover, many MAD Movies and Doujin music that sampled

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770-610: The kanji characters "竜野", while the historic name for the place uses the characters "龍野." According to the Harima no Kuni Fudoki , the origin of the name "Tatsuno" was that upon the death of Nomi no Sukune in Ibo District (now in the city of Tatsuno), many came from Izumo and used rock from the Ibo River to make a grave, standing stones in a row on the plain. Thus, it was called "立野", with characters meaning "stand" and "plain", from which it

805-540: The largest ports in Japan. Kobe Port also hosts one of the world's fastest supercomputers, and Hyogo Prefecture passed laws to keep Kobe Port free of nuclear weapons (a nuclear-free zone ) since the year 1975. Hyōgo is a part of the Hanshin Industrial Region . There are two research institutes of Riken , natural sciences research institute in Japan, in Kobe and Harima. " SPring-8 ", a synchrotron radiation facility,

840-576: The north, the Sea of Japan , to the south, the Seto Inland Sea . On Awaji Island , Hyōgo borders the Pacific Ocean coastline in the Kii Channel . The northern portion is sparsely populated, except for the city of Toyooka , The central highlands are only populated by tiny villages. Most of Hyōgo's population lives on the southern coast, which is part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area. Awaji

875-510: The only town in Akō District ( Kamigōri ), were scheduled to merge and the city would still retain the name Akō . Akō District would be defunct if the merger was successful. However, the merger has not taken place. As in all prefectures nationwide, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries play a big role in the economy of Hyogo Prefecture. Hyōgo Prefecture also has an IT industry, many heavy industries, metal and medical, Kobe Port being one of

910-501: The party), but were unable to secure the 44 seats required for an outright majority. The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was reduced from 16 seats to 11. The Japan Innovation Party , contesting the unified local elections for the first time, won nine seats. Voter turnout was 40.55%, a reduction of 0.88% compared to the 2011 election. Following the election, the LDP's Noriyuki Ishikawa and Ryosuke Ueda were elected speaker and vice-speaker of

945-575: The prefectural police sent the files on Nonomura to the Kōbe District Public Prosecutors Office (KDPPO) on suspicion of fraud and making of false documents/uttering of same . The opinion of "Severe punishment", which seeks an indictment , was marked for the prosecution. On August 18 of the same year, the KDPPO indicted Nonomura without arrest with fraud and making of false documents/uttering of same in which he cheated them out of

980-402: The previous fiscal year, they conducted an investigation on political expenses for the past three fiscal years, which they carried out for all prefectural assemblymembers, and publicized the results. As a result of the investigation, it was found that 24 prefectural assembly members, which corresponds to roughly 30%, and one faction's use of a total expenditure of approximately 4.9 million yen

1015-409: The request for fiscal 2013. When suspicions first rose up, Nonomura strongly asserted that the use of expenses for political activities was something legal, but he eventually resigned from the prefectural assembly by the date July 11, and returned a total of 18.34 million yen in political expenses that he received since fiscal 2011 and approximately 890,000 yen of delinquency charge. In July,

1050-563: The second-most-populated urban region in Japan after the Greater Tokyo area and one of the world's most productive regions by GDP . Present-day Hyōgo Prefecture includes the former provinces of Harima , Tajima , Awaji , and parts of Tanba and Settsu . In 1180, near the end of the Heian period , Emperor Antoku , Taira no Kiyomori , and the Imperial court moved briefly to Fukuhara, in what

1085-588: The south of the province in Kita-ku, Kobe is one of the Three Ancient Springs in Japan. The north of Hyogo Prefecture has sightseeing spots such as Kinosaki Onsen, Izushi , and Yumura Onsen . Takeda Castle in Asago is often referred to locally as the "Machu Picchu of Japan". The matsuba crab and Tajima beef are both national delicacies. Hyogo entered a sister state relationship with Washington state in

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1120-624: The state of the press conference were posted on the Internet, and " N’A-! HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA! This Japan NNF NNF N-HAAAAAAAAAAAN! AU-AUOUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUAN! THIS JAPAN AU AU……AAH! I VANT TO JANGE……UGH……the world! ", which corrupted the exclamatory noises at the time of Nonomura's conference, was chosen for the Silver Award in the Internet Buzzwords Grand Prize of the same fiscal year. Hideo Iwatani, an LDP prefectural asm., had earmarked

1155-570: The total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks , namely the Sanin Kaigan and Setonaikai National Parks; Hyōnosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park ; and Asago Gunzan , Harima Chūbu Kyūryō , Inagawa Keikoku , Izushi-Itoi , Kasagatayama-Sengamine , Kiyomizu-Tōjōko-Tachikui , Onzui-Chikusa , Seiban Kyūryō , Seppiko-Mineyama , Tajima Sangaku , and Taki Renzan Prefectural Natural Parks. Two major artificial islands are located Hyōgo Prefecture: The city of Akō and

1190-460: Was illegal, and demanded its return. Citizen groups filed a resident audit request against 8 Hyōgo Prefectural Assemblymembers, including those who had resigned, demanding returns alleging that there were improper expenditures in the expenses for political activities, but on November 11, 2014, the prefectural audit committee members rejected the request alleging that the billing period for fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2012 had expired. They also dismissed

1225-613: Was installed as daimyō of the newly created Tatsuno Domain . The town prospered as a castle town and the domain passed through various rulers, ultimately coming under the rule of the Wakisaka clan beginning in 1672, lasting 200 years and 10 generations, after which came the Meiji Restoration . The castle town's area from the early modern period is extant today in what is now the "old Tatsuno-chō area,” which still contains samurai residences and white-plastered earthen storehouses, giving

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