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| settlement_type= City | image_skyline= Kushiro montages.JPG | image_caption= Top:Kushiro Wetland Park, 2nd left:Lake Akan, 2nd right Port of Kushiro, 3rd: Mount Akan-Fuji, Bottom left:Kushiro Ramen, Bottom right:Kushiro Fisherman's Wharf ''Woo'' | image_flag= Flag of Kushiro, Hokkaido.png | image_map= Kushiro in Hokkaido Prefecture Ja.svg | lat_deg= 42 | lat_min= 59 | lat_sec= | lon_deg= 144 | lon_min= 23 | lon_sec= | region= Hokkaido | prefecture= Hokkaido (Kushiro Subprefecture) | district= | mayor= Ebina Hiroya | area_km2= 1362.75 | population= 183,757 | population_as_of= August 31, 2011 | density_km2= 140 | tree= Syringa reticulata | flower= Nasturtium | bird= | city_hall_address= 7-5 Kuroganechō, Kushiro-shi, Hokkaido | city_hall_postal_code= 085-8505 | website= }} is a Japanese city in Kushiro Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital city of Kushiro Subprefecture, as well as the most populous city in eastern Hokkaido. ==History== An Imperial decree in July 1899 established Kushiro as an open port for trading with the United States and the United Kingdom.〔US Department of State. (1906). ( ''A digest of international law as embodied in diplomatic discussions, treaties and other international agreements'' (John Bassett Moore, ed.), Vol. 5, p. 759 ).〕 Kushiro has been an important port because it is more reliably ice-free during winter than alternative Russian Far East warm-water ports such as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky or other ports in Hokkaido such as Hakodate, which occasionally do freeze for short periods due to the lower salinity of the Sea of Japan. For this reason, Kushiro was considered a valuable target for the Tsars during the Russo-Japanese Wars, but it only became a really important port during the 1920s with the growth of commercial fishing, for which its reliable freedom from ice reduced costs.〔(Port of Kushiro )〕 On October 11, 2005 the town of Akan, from Akan District, and the town of Onbetsu, from Shiranuka District, was merged into Kushiro. In 2008 the city had an estimated population of 189,539 and a total area of , giving a population density of 140 persons per km² (363 persons per sq. mi.). In addition to its port, Kushiro is serviced by Kushiro Airport with flights from Honshu and by the ''Super Ōzora'' limited express train service, which runs seven times per day to the main population centres in the west of Hokkaido. Kushiro was accorded city status on 1 August 1922. It is the sister city of Burnaby, British Columbia; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia; and Kholmsk, Russia.〔(Russian presence in Japan )〕 *1869 Kusuri becomes Kushiro. *1900 Kushiro becomes a First Class Municipality as Kushiro Town *1920 Kushiro Town becomes Kushiro-''ku''. Kushiro Village (now Town) splits off *1922 Kushiro-''ku'' becomes Kushiro City *2005 Kushiro City, Akan Town, and Onbetsu Town merged to form the new city named Kushiro City 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kushiro, Hokkaido」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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