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Kashiwa
Japan
Kashiwa, city, northwestern Chiba ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated on the Tone River on a main rail line running northeast from Tokyo city. The city was formed in 1954 by the merger of the towns of Kashiwa and Kogane and two smaller hamlets.
Kashiwa was a small post town on the Mito road during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867). It subsequently was a railway hub and local commercial centre until World War II. With electrification of one of the rail lines in 1951, Kashiwa rapidly became a residential suburb of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. Pop. (2010) 404,012; (2015) 413,954.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Michael Ray.
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