Iruma

Iruma is a town located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of one February 2016, the metropolis had an predicted population of 148,460, and a population density of 3,320 persons per km². Its general vicinity is 44.69 square kilometres 17.25 squaremi. Iruma advanced as a sequence of 3 put up towns on the Nikko Wakiokan motorway for the duration of the Edo length. The metropolis of Toyooka and villages of Kaneko, Miyadera, Fujisawa and Higashikaneko were created within Iruma District, Saitama with the established order of the municipalities machine on April 1, 1889.

The Imperial Japanese Army Air Academy hooked up an airfield within the vicinity in 1938, which later advanced into Iruma Air Base. On April 1, 1954 Higashikaneko have become Seibu Town. On September 30, 1956, Toyooka, Kaneko, Miyadera, Fujisawa and Seibu merged to shape the metropolis of Musashi. Musashi was multiplied to city status on November 1, 1966, becoming the city of Iruma. In 2017 Japan have become the first united states ever to choose an openly transgender man to any public workplace whilst Tomoya Hosoda become elected as a councillor for the city of Iruma.