Tabuse

Tabuse spreads inland from the Seto Inland Sea coast at the base of the Murotsu Peninsula in southeastern Yamaguchi Prefecture. In addition, the town includes the small inhabited island of Umashima in Seto Inland Sea. The northwest is mountainous, and small rivers that originate in this area join to form the Tabuse River, which flows through the center of town. The Kogyoji neighborhood of Tabuse is an exclave surrounded by Hikari and Yanai cities.

Yamaguchi Prefecture

• Hikari
• Hirao
• Iwakuni
• Yanai

Tabuse has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with very warm summers and cool winters. The average annual temperature in Tabuse is 15.5 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1678 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 26.0 °C, and lowest in January, at around 5.5 °C.[https://en.climate-data.org/asia/japan/yamaguchi/tabuse-716599/ Tabuse climate data]

Per Japanese census data, the population of Tabuse has been steady for the past 70 years.

{{Historical populations

| 1940 | 12993

| 1950 | 17191

| 1960 | 15609

| 1970 | 14547

| 1980 | 16636

| 1990 | 16568

| 2000 | 16217

| 2010 | 15984

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| footnote = Tabuse population statistics[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/japan/Yamaguchi/ Tabuse population statistics]

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The area of Tabuse was part of an ancient Suō Province. During the Edo Period, the area was part of the holdings of Chōshū Domain. Following the Meiji restoration, the village of Tabuse within Kumage District, Yamaguchi was established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. Tabuse as elevated to town status on February 11, 1921. On January 1, 1955 Tabuse annexed the villages of Ogō, Marifu and Jōnan.

In 2018, a civil servant reported property tax misconduct by the mayor of Tabuse and the head of the tax collection management agency.{{Cite web |title=Tax collection whistle-blower harassed by bosses for efforts {{!}} The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis |url=https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13446161 |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=The Asahi Shimbun |language=en}}

Tabuse has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town council of 12 members. Tabuse, together with the towns of Kaminoseki and Hirao contributes one member to the Yamaguchi Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of the Yamaguchi 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Tabuse has a rural economy based on agriculture and commercial fishing. There is one small industrial park.

Tabuse has four public elementary school and one public junior high school operated by the town government, and one public high school operated by the Yamaguchi Prefectural Board of Education.

Tabuse is home to the headquarters of the Japanese new religions Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō and Shintō Tenkōkyo.{{cite web | title=石城山への交通案内 | url=http://tenkoukyo.jp/kotsuannai.html | language=ja | access-date=2025-05-06}}

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• Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936234469 |title=The prime ministers of postwar Japan, 1945-1995 : their lives and times |date=2016 |others=Akio Watanabe, Robert D. Eldridge, 渡邉昭夫 |isbn=978-1-4985-1002-8 |location=Lanham, Maryland |pages=98–99 |oclc=936234469}}
• Eisaku Satō, Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972 and younger brother of Kishi{{Cite book |last1=Yamada |first1=Eizō. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20260847 |title=Seiden Satō Eisaku |last2=山田栄三. |date=1988 |publisher=Shinchōsha |isbn=4-10-370701-1 |location=Tōkyō |pages=23 |oclc=20260847}}
• Kitamura Sayo, founder of Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō{{Cite book |last1=Kaminogō |first1=Toshiaki |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32867704 |title=Kyōso tanjō |last2=上之鄉利昭 |date=1994 |publisher=Kōdansha |isbn=4-06-185739-8 |location=Tōkyō |pages=300–321 |oclc=32867704}}

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• [http://www.town.tabuse.lg.jp/ Tabuse official website] {{in lang|ja}}

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Category:Populated coastal places in Japan

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