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Demographics
Hyuga is a small city with a total population of 63,011 persons, 30,150 males and 32,861 females, as of November 2015. The over all area is 336.29 km2 giving a general population density of 188 persons per km2. However, about 77.8% of the land is mountainous and forested. Much of the remaining land is used for farming or industry leaving about 4% of the total land area inhabitable ; this puts the defacto population density in inhabitable areas at about 851 persons per km2. Hyuga's primary population centers are the Zaikoji and Hichiya regions of centeral Hyuga City which house over 60% of the city's overall population.

Overall, Hyuga is primarily a very homogenous city with 99.6% of the population Japanese and a mere 0.4% of the population of foreign descent as of 2010. The majority of the foreigners in Hyuga are temporary fishermen, factory workers, or teachers.

Prehistory
Archaeologists working in Hyūga have reported finding artifacts such as stone tools and stone piles from as much as 30,000 years ago, the Japanese Paleolithic period.

There is also evidence of inhabitation during the Jomon Period. Archaeological digs uncovering pottery from this time period continue today in parts of the city.

Classical Period
Asuka/Nara Period 550 BE - 794 AD Heian Period 794 - 1185 Kamakura Period 1185 - 1333

Feudal Period
Moromachi Period 1333 - 15658 Momoyama Period 1568 - 1600 Edo (Tokugawa) 1600 - 1868 The failed Teradaya Incident

Modern Period
Meiji Period onward 1869~ ===Classical era=== After the Taika Reform of 646, Ikata and the greater surrounding area became known as the Uwa District in 701. The Uwa District covered the entire Nanyo region (map) until it was split in two in 866. Since districts were defined by population, one can infer that the area was underdeveloped and sparsely populated at the time.

===Feudal era=== Towards the end of the Heian Period, the Yawatahama and Ikata area became known as Yano (矢野郷). As ownership of farmlands became increasingly concentrated in the hands of local ruling families, control of the Yano area was given to Taira no Tadamitsu, a member of the Heike clan. Some members of the Heike family secretly settled in the Seto area in 1185 after being defeated in the Genpei Wars. Entering the Edo Period and the Tokugawa shogunate, the Uwa District came under control of the Uwajima Domain (宇和島藩). From 1610 to 1612, the first Uwajima feudal lord, Tomita Nobutaka, gathered farmers from the local area to dig a canal through the thinnest part of the Sadamisaki Peninsula, Seto's Mitsukue neighborhood. The project was soon canceled due to insufficient funds. By this time, the name Ikata (伊方浦) can be seen in records of taxes paid to the feudal lords. The Mitsukue neighborhood prospered as a port town during the feudal period, as it was used as a port of rest for daimyos on their way to and from the capital as part of the sankin kōtai system. This traffic was likely the source of the demand for Nobutaka's abortive attempt to create a shortcut through the peninsula.

===Modern era=== A decade after the Meiji Restoration, in March 1878 the Uwa District was divided into the current Kitauwa, Minamiuwa, Higashiuwa, and Nishiuwa districts (North-, South-, East-, and West-Uwa, respectively). Ikata was designated a village (村) in 1889, and other neighborhoods along the peninsula soon followed suit, many merging to reduce the number of independent settlements from 26 to 6. More recently, Seto's Mitsukue Bay was used for submarine training operations by the Japanese navy leading up to World War II, as the bay's shape is similar to that of Pearl Harbor. A monument named The Nine War Heroes (九軍神) stands in Suka Park in Mitsukue as a memorial dedicated to the nine young men (ages 21–28) who were stationed in the Mitsukue area for these exercises. According to the plaque on the monument, the men were quite friendly with the locals, and stories are still told about them in the neighborhood to this day. The men died on December 8, 1941, during one of the initial attacks on Pearl Harbor. In 1955 another round of mergers corresponding to the Great Shōwa Merger reduced the number of municipal entities to 3. In 1977 the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant began operation as the first nuclear power plant on the island of Shikoku. On April 1, 2005, Ikata merged with the nearby towns of Misaki and Seto to create the new town of Ikata, which spans the Sadamisaki Peninsula.

===Current events=== :*March, 2014. National attention turns to Ikata as the towns elections near. Many wonder if Ikata will approve the restart of its nuclear power generators. :*The installation of many new windmills in 2006 and 2007 solicited a significant amount of noise complaints from nearby residents.