Onahama

Japanese: 小名浜 - おなはま

A port town facing the Pacific Ocean in the southeast of Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. Formerly part of Iwasaki County, Mutsu Province. During the Edo Period, it was bustling as the leading fishing port in the Iwaki region, a transit commercial port for the import and export of rice tax and various other goods, and a port of call on the Tokaikai shipping route. In 1747, when the Iwakidaira domain, including this area, with a 47,000 koku stipend, was transferred to the Shogunate, the Shogunate magistrate's camp was established there, and it also became a political base. The village details book from the same year lists 1,361 households and 6,237 people. From the early Meiji Period, it became a shipping port for coal produced in the Joban coalfields. However, with the opening of the Japanese Railway Iwaki Line (now the JR Joban Line) in 1897, the shipping industry declined. After that, it functioned as a fishing port again, but in 1951 it was designated an important port, and now it also plays a role as an international trade port and a port for importing foreign timber.
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Japanese:

福島県いわき市の東南部，太平洋に面した港町。かつては陸奥国磐前(いわさき)郡のうち。江戸時代には磐城地方随一の漁港，年貢米・諸物資移出入の中継商港，東廻海運航路の寄港地として賑わう。1747年磐城平藩領のうち当地を含む４万7000石が幕府領に転じると，これを管轄する幕府代官の陣屋が置かれ，政治的拠点ともなった。同年の村明細帳では家数1361・人数6237。明治初期からは常磐炭田で産出した石炭の積出港となる。しかし1897年の日本鉄道磐城線（現JR常磐線）の開通により海運業は衰退。その後は再び漁港として機能していたが，1951年に重要港湾に指定され，現在は国際貿易港・外材輸入港としての役割も担う。
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