Mutsu

Mutsu is a metropolis located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. As of 28 February 2017, the town had an predicted populace of 59,807, and a populace density of 69.2 folks in step with km², in 29,304 families. Its overall location is 864.16 square kilometres, making it the most important municipality in Aomori Prefecture in terms of region. Mutsu was based as September 1, 1959 thru the merger of the previous towns of Ominato and Tanabu.

Tanabu have been the region of a daikansho under the Morioka Domain in the Edo duration, and became a resettlement and colonization quarter for dispossessed ex-samurai of the defeated Aizu Domain after the Boshin War. Ominato was a port town, and home to the ominato Guard District, a prime base for the Imperial Japanese Navy till the stop of World War II. The base centers were utilized by the US Navy all through the career of Japan, and on a discounted scale by the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force to this point.

The new town turned into firstly called Ominato-Tanabu coupling of the names of two antecedent towns; its call turned into changed to Mutsu in 1960. At the time, it changed into the best town with a hiragana call, which was followed to avoid confusion with the original kanji word Mutsu which shows the antique province that blanketed most of the present day Tohoku vicinity. On March 14, 2005, the towns of Kawauchi and Ohata, and the village of Wakinosawa all from Shimokita District have been merged into Mutsu.