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23-636: Yaizu is located in central Shizuoka Prefecture, on a heavily indented coastline of Suruga Bay , facing the Pacific Ocean . The climate, tempered by the warm Kuroshio Current offshore is maritime temperature, with hot, humid summers and short cool winters. Per Japanese census data, the population of Yaizu has been increasing over the past 70 years. The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ). The average annual temperature in Yaizu

46-423: A five-year fishing moratorium. After the start of World War II , the Yaizu fishing industry was again hit hard by the requisition of entire Yaizu fishing fleet (113 vessels) and crewmen by Imperial Japanese Navy in 1941. Only 10 vessels survived the war. Yaizu was elevated to city status on March 1, 1951. On November 1, 1953, Toyota Village merged into Yaizu City. The city name gained international prominence over

69-497: A seaport in Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar " and "a native of Tangier." The name was first used for fruit coming from Tangier , Morocco , described as a mandarin variety. The OED cites this usage from Addison 's The Tatler in 1710 with similar uses from the 1800s. The adjective was applied to the fruit, once known scientifically as " Citrus nobilis var. tangeriana " which grew in

92-450: A small pomelo contribution, a Ponkan mandarin orange and a second unidentified mandarin. The Dancy is no longer widely commercially grown; it is too delicate to handle and ship well, it is susceptible to Alternaria fungus, and it bears more heavily in alternate years. Dancys are still grown for personal consumption, and many hybrids of the Dancy are grown commercially. Until the 1970s,

115-419: A three-way hybrid ( 5 ⁄ 8 tangerine, 1 ⁄ 4 orange and 1 ⁄ 8 grapefruit), is also grown. In 2021, world production of tangerines (including mandarins and clementines ) was 42 million tonnes , led by China with 60% of the total (table). Tangerines contain 85% water, 13% carbohydrates , and negligible amounts of fat and protein (table). Among micronutrients , only vitamin C

138-563: Is 16.3 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2176 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.0 °C, and lowest in January, at around 6.3 °C. Yaizu is an ancient settlement, with Yaizu Shrine claiming to have been founded in the 5th century during the Kofun period , and numerous kofun tumuli are found within the city limits. During

161-540: Is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color, that is considered either a variety of Citrus reticulata , the mandarin orange , or a closely related species, under the name Citrus tangerina , or yet as a hybrid ( Citrus × tangerina ) of mandarin orange varieties, with some pomelo contribution. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the word "tangerine" was originally an adjective meaning "Of or pertaining to, or native of Tangier,

184-472: Is also the home of the Hasegawa plastic model kit manufacturing company. Yaizu is also home to one of Sapporo Brewery 's Largest factories, as well as the company's new product development division. [REDACTED] Media related to Yaizu, Shizuoka at Wikimedia Commons Ria A ria ( / ˈ r iː ə / ; Galician : ría , feminine noun derived from río , river) is a coastal inlet formed by

207-612: Is also used in salads, desserts and main dishes. The peel is used fresh or dried as a spice or zest for baking and drinks. Fresh tangerine juice and frozen juice concentrate are commonly available in the United States. Tangerines were first grown and cultivated as a distinct crop in the Americas by a Major Atway in Palatka, Florida . Atway was said to have imported them from Morocco (more specifically its third-largest city Tangier ), which

230-528: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel .) A ria coast is a coastline having several parallel rias separated by prominent ridges, extending a distance inland. The sea level change that caused the submergence of a river valley may be either eustatic (where global sea levels rise), or isostatic (where the local land sinks). The result is often a very large estuary at the mouth of a relatively insignificant river (or else sediments would quickly fill

253-546: The Daigo Fukuryū Maru Incident, in which a Yaizu-based fishing vessel was irradiated by atomic testing at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. The city further expanded on January 1, 1955, by annexation of the neighboring villages of Higashi Mashizu, Kogawa, Ōtomi, and Wada, and on April 1, 1957, when Hirohata Village was divided between Yaizu and Fujieda cities. Yaizu port underwent a major expansion in March 1968. The city

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276-732: The Edo period , Yaizu developed as a port under Tanaka Domain , and fish from Yaizu was frequently supplied to the retired shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu at nearby Sunpu Castle . In the October 1, 1886, establishment of the modern municipalities system after the Meiji Restoration , Yaizu Village was established within Mashizu District, Shizuoka prefecture. Mashizu District merged into neighboring Shida District in 1896. The following year, in 1897, author Lafcadio Hearn began his residence in Yaizu. Yaizu

299-455: The commercial fishing industry. Yaizu Port was first in Japan in terms of tonnage of bonito and tuna in 2002, and third in terms of mackerel . Local industries are centered on food processing, including the production of katsuobushi , shiokara , tsukudani , and kamaboko (especially narutomaki ). Agricultural products include green tea , melons , tangerines , and tomatoes. Yaizu

322-464: The oranges . The taste is considered less sour , as well as sweeter and stronger, than that of an orange. A ripe tangerine is firm to slightly soft, and pebbly-skinned with no deep grooves, as well as orange in color. The peel is thin, with little bitter white mesocarp . All of these traits are shared by mandarins generally. Peak tangerine season lasts from autumn to spring . Tangerines are most commonly peeled and eaten by hand. The fresh fruit

345-512: The 21st century, however, the preferred usage of ria by geologists and geomorphologists is to refer solely to drowned unglaciated river valleys. It therefore excludes fjords by definition, since fjords are products of glaciation. The funnel-like shape of rias can amplify the effects of tsunamis , as demonstrated in the seismicity of the Sanriku coast , most recently in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami . Tangerine The tangerine

368-597: The Dancy was the most widely grown tangerine in the United States; the popularity of the fruit led to the term "tangerine" being broadly applied as a marketing name. Florida classifies tangerine-like hybrid fruits as tangerines for the purposes of sale and regulation; this classification is widely used but regarded as technically inaccurate in the industry. Among the most important tangerine hybrids of Florida are murcotts (a late-fruiting type of tangor marketed as "honey tangerine" ) and Sunbursts (an early-fruiting complex tangerine-orange-grapefruit hybrid). The fallglo, also

391-634: The partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley . It is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea. Typically rias have a dendritic , treelike outline although they can be straight and without significant branches. This pattern is inherited from the dendritic drainage pattern of the flooded river valley. The drowning of river valleys along a stretch of coast and formation of rias results in an extremely irregular and indented coastline. Often, there are naturally occurring islands, which are summits of partly submerged, pre-existing hill peaks. (Islands may also be artificial, such as those constructed for

414-592: The region of Tangiers. This usage appears in the 1800s. Under the Tanaka classification system , Citrus tangerina is considered a separate species. Under the Swingle system , tangerines are considered a group of mandarin ( C. reticulata ) varieties. Some differ only in disease resistance. The term is also currently applied to any reddish-orange mandarin (and, in some jurisdictions, mandarin-like hybrids, including some tangors ). Tangerines are smaller and less rounded than

437-596: The ria). The Kingsbridge Estuary in Devon , England, is an extreme example of a ria forming an estuary disproportionate to the size of its river; no significant river flows into it at all, only a number of small streams. The word ria comes from Galician ría which comes from río (river). Rias are present all along the Galician coast in Spain . As originally defined, the term was restricted to drowned river valleys cut parallel to

460-440: The structure of the country rock that was at right angles to the coastline. However the definition of ria was later expanded to other flooded river valleys regardless of the structure of the country rock. For a time European geomorphologists considered rias to include any broad estuarine river mouth, including fjords . These are long narrow inlets with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity . In

483-473: Was elevated to town status on June 28, 1901. Yaizu Fishing Cooperative was established in 1903, and started to take frozen catch from Yaizu to Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market from 1908. Shipbuilding facilities, primarily for the production of fishing vessels, was established in 1924. The Yaizu Fishing Cooperative began the first wireless communication with its fishing fleet in Japan in 1925, but overfishing soon led to collapse of bonito stocks in 1926, resulting in

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506-521: Was the origin of the name. Major Atway sold his groves to N. H. Moragne in 1843, giving the Moragne tangerine the other part of its name. The Moragne tangerine produced a seedling which became one of the oldest and most popular American varieties, the Dancy tangerine ( zipper -skin tangerine, kid-glove orange). Genetic analysis has shown the parents of the Dancy to have been two mandarin orange hybrids each with

529-484: Was the site of the 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident on January 31, 2001. On November 1, 2008, the town of Ōigawa (from Shida District ) was merged into Yaizu. Atami has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 21 members. The city contributes three members to the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly. The economy of Yaizu is dominated by

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