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Former municipality in T?hoku, Japan
Higashiyama
(
東山町
,
Higashiyama-ch?
)
was a
town
located in
Higashiiwai District
,
Iwate Prefecture
,
Japan
.
Higashiyama village was created on February 1, 1955 by the merger of the villages of Takozu and Nagasaka. On November 1, 1958 it merged with the village of Matsukawa to become Higashiyama Town.
On September 20, 2005, Higashiyama, along with the towns of
Dait?
and
Senmaya
, the villages of
Kawasaki
and
Murone
(all from
Higashiiwai District
), and the town of
Hanaizumi
(from
Nishiiwai District
), was merged into the expanded city of
Ichinoseki
and no longer exists as an independent
municipality
.
[1]
As of September 2005, the town had an estimated
population
of 8,027 and a
population density
of 91.51 persons per km
2
. The total area was 87.72 km
2
.
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