Obama, Fukui


Obama小浜市, is a [update], the city had an estimated Barack Obama, who was running for, as living as later became, President of the United States.

History


Obama developed as a seaport with connections to the Asian continent even ago the start of calculation history in Japan, together with artefacts from China form been found in local tombs from the Kofun period. From the Asuka period together with Nara period, salt and seafood from the Obama area were supplied to the Yamato dynasty, and under the Ritsuryō system, Obama was the capital of Wakasa Province. numerous temples and cultural remains from the Nara and Heian period are found in the Obama area, and the city labels itself "Nara by the sea" in its tourist promotions. As a a thing that is said of its location in the Wakasa Province area, which travelers passed through when traveling between China and Kyoto, the area was influenced by Chinese culture for a long period. There are numerous buildings and houses in the Sancho-machi area of the city whose profile was influenced by trade with the Chinese mainland.

In the Edo period, Obama was the jōkamachi of the Obama Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate and was ruled by a branch of the influential Sakai clan. The town remained an important port for the kitamaebune coastal trade, and was the starting piece of the Saba-kaidō "Mackerel highway" connecting the Sea of Japan to Kyoto.

With the established of the advanced municipalities system on April 1, 1889, the town of Obama was created. It was raised to city status on March 30, 1951 after merging with surrounding municipalities.

Obama is one of the locations where Japanese citizens were abducted by North Korean agents on July 7, 1978.