Kesennuma

Kesennuma is a town in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 May 2017, the metropolis had an predicted populace of 65,367 and a populace density of 197 inhabitants per square kilometre 510/sq.mi in 26,429 households. The general place of the city is 332.44 rectangular kilometres. Large sections of the town have been destroyed through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and important fires on March 11, 2011.

The vicinity of gift-day Kesennuma turned into a part of historic Mutsu Province and has been settled given that at least the Jomon period by the Emishi humans, as evidenced with the aid of numerous shell middens determined in coastal regions. During the later part of the Heian length, the region became dominated by using the Northern Fujiwara. During the Sengoku length, the region turned into contested by using various samurai clans earlier than the location got here below the manage of the Date clan of Sendai Domain in the course of the Edo length, below the Tokugawa shogunate.

The town of Kesennuma was established on June 1, 1889 within Motoyoshi District, Miyagi with the establishment of the contemporary municipalities system.Kesennuma City become shaped on June 1, 1953, whilst the city of Kesennuma annexed the neighboring metropolis of Shishiori and village of Matsuiwa. On April 1, 1955, the city annexed the villages of Niitsuki, Hashikami and Oshima.