Yokote

Yokote is a town positioned in Akita Prefecture, Japan. As of June 2013, the town has an predicted population of 94,728, and a population density of 137 humans according to km². The general area is 693.04 km2. The area of present-day Yokote turned into a part of historical Dewa Province and changed into the native land of the Kiyohara extended family of the Heian duration Gosannen War. At the give up of the Sengoku duration, the region got here underneath the manage of the Onodera clan, who ruled from Yokote Castle.

However, the Onodera sided in opposition to Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara and the location came below the manipulate of the Satake extended family, who had been relocated to Kubota Domain from their former holdings in Hitachi Province. Kubota Domain changed into uncommon in that it contained multiple castle, no matter the Tokugawa shogunate's "one castle consistent with area" rule, and Yokote remained a secondary castle metropolis underneath the Kubota clan until the Meiji recovery.

After the start of the Meiji duration, the region have become a part of Hiraka District, Akita Prefecture in 1878, with one town and 23 villages. The present day metropolis of Yokote changed into founded on April 1, 1951. On October 1, 2005, the towns of Hiraka, Jumonji, Masuda, Omonogawa and Omori, and the villages of Sannai, and Taiyu all from Hiraka District were merged into Yokote.