Hōhoku, Yamaguchi

Hōhoku (豊北町, Hōhoku-chō) was a town located in Toyoura District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

As of January 31, 2005, the town had an estimated population of 12,740 and a density of 75.56 persons per km². The total area is 168.61 km².

On February 13, 2005, Hōhoku, along with the towns of Kikugawa, Toyoura and Toyota (all from Toyoura District), was merged into the expanded city of Shimonoseki.^[1]

Famous Residents

• Masaaki Ikenaga: Former baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions.
• SION: Singer-songwriter
• Kikusha Tagami: Edo-period poet
• Taichi Nakayama: Founder of Nakayama Taiyoudou Cosmetics (now Club Cosmetics Co., Ltd)
• Kiyoshi Sasabe: Film director
• Keiko Umeda: Announcer
• Ryuji Fujita: Japanese artist
• Kumiko Sakino: Volleyball player
• Masami Yamamoto: President of Fujitsu Ltd
• Shouzan Sasaki: Member of the Imperial Diet
• Saburo Akieda: Lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and a member of the 8th Submarine Squadron
• Tagami Kikusha: Poet

References

External links

• Hōhoku official site at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
• Life Accessory - A Guide To Hōhoku (in Japanese)
• Shimonoseki official website (in Japanese)
• Shimonoseki official website (in English)
• Shimonoseki Commerce and Industry Association - Hōhoku Branch (in Japanese)