{"id":361,"date":"2009-04-15T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T04:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:30:41","slug":"omi-hachiman-and-azuchi-aiming-to-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/omi-hachiman-and-azuchi-aiming-to-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Omi-Hachiman and Azuchi aiming to merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Omihachiman,_Shiga\">Omi-Hachiman&#8217;s<\/a> city council passed a bill to establish the Omi-Hachiman-Azuchi Municipal Merger Deliberation Council (\u8fd1\u6c5f\u516b\u5e61\u5e02\u30fb\u5b89\u571f\u753a\u5408\u4f75\u5354\u8b70\u4f1a) on April 1 to aim for a municipal merger with neighboring Azuchi town. Azuchi also passed the same bill in their town council on March 25, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>They both aim to merge by March 2010. However, a citizens group in Azuchi gathered 4,000 signatures and submitted a petition to the Azuchi Town Council to require a\u00a0referendum to be held to vote on the issue. Unfortunately, the bill to hold a referendum was rejected by the town council who took a vote on the issue on April 14, 2009. The town council apparently wants the merger to go through despite the residents&#8217; opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Such a merger was attempted four years ago, but a referendum in Azuchi rejected it. One problem is that Omi-Hachiman is in deep debt and no one really wants to merge with that city. Interesting that neighboring Ryuo town is not even close to merging with Omi-Hachiman even though the town is part of Omi-Hachiman&#8217;s area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, 2009, Omi-Hachiman&#8217;s city council passed a bill to establish the Omi-Hachiman-Azuchi Municipal Merger Deliberation Council (\u8fd1\u6c5f\u516b\u5e61\u5e02\u30fb\u5b89\u571f\u753a\u5408\u4f75\u5354\u8b70\u4f1a) on April 1 to aim for a municipal merger with neighboring Azuchi town. Azuchi also passed the same bill in their&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-omihachiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}