{"id":439,"date":"2009-05-24T20:40:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:40:47","slug":"omi-hachiman-to-remain-omi-hachiman-after-merging-with-azuchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/omi-hachiman-to-remain-omi-hachiman-after-merging-with-azuchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Omi-Hachiman to remain &#8220;Omi-Hachiman&#8221; after merging with Azuchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Omihachiman,_Shiga\">Omi-Hachiman<\/a> and neighboring <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Azuchi-cho,_Shiga\">Azuchi<\/a> are planning to merge in March 2010. On May 22, 2009, the deliberation committee for the merger between the two municipalities held a vote to decide the new name of the city after merging. Two proposed names were up for voting: Omi-Hachiman (\u8fd1\u6c5f\u516b\u5e61)\u00a0and Omi-Hachiman-Azuchi (\u8fd1\u6c5f\u516b\u5e61\u5b89\u571f).<\/p>\n<p>It was a close vote, but\u00a0Omi-Hachiman won the most votes. I&#8217;m surprised that &#8220;Azuchi&#8221; was not one of the options. The Azuchi name is far more famous than Omi-Hachiman. Japan&#8217;s Azuchi-Momoyama Period is named after Azuchi Castle built by Oda Nobunaga.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that &#8220;Azuchi-cho&#8221; will be retained as a place name in addresses after the merger. The current Omi-Hachiman City Hall will serve as the new city&#8217;s city hall, while the Azuchi Town Hall will be a branch office.<\/p>\n<p>However, there might be a stumbling block to this merger by a citizen&#8217;s group in Azuchi petitioning for the recall of its mayor who is railroading this merger through.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting that neighboring <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Ryuo-cho,_Shiga\">Ryuo-cho<\/a> is out of the merger picture. Ryuo has the Daihatsu auto factories, but residents still depend on Omi-Hachiman for daily living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported earlier, Omi-Hachiman and neighboring Azuchi are planning to merge in March 2010. On May 22, 2009, the deliberation committee for the merger between the two municipalities held a vote to decide the new name of the city after&#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-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-omihachiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}