Nakijin, Okinawa
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is a village
Villages of Japan
A is a local administrative unit in Japan.It is a local public body along with , , and . Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture....

 located in Kunigami District
Kunigami District, Okinawa
is a district located in Okinawa, Japan. Roughly translated, kunigami means "head of the country", referring to its northern location on the island of Okinawa. Compare this to Shimajiri District, Okinawa....

, Okinawa
Okinawa Prefecture
is one of Japan's southern prefectures. It consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū to Taiwan. Okinawa's capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of Okinawa Island...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

.

As of 2003, the village has an estimated population
Population
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 of 9,529 and a population density
Population density
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 of 239.00 persons per km². The total area is 39.87 km².

Education

The village operates its public elementary and junior high schools.

Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education
Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education
Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education is the prefectural education agency of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan.The board oversees municipal school districts in Okinawa and directly operates many high schools.-Schools directly operated by the agency:-Ginowan:...

 operates Hokuzan High Schoolhttp://www.hokuzan-h.open.ed.jp/.

Famous people from Nakijin

  • Munetsugu Kayo, boxer
  • Seiji Shimota, novelist
  • Seizen Nakasone, linguist
  • Shokichi Uehara, politician and businessperson
  • Shun Medoruma
    Shun Medoruma
    Shun Medoruma is, along with Matayoshi Eiki, one of the most important contemporary Okinawan writers. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story A Drop of Water...

    , novelist

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