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Rebun 礼文町
Town
Kafuka Port in Rebun
Flag Seal
Location of Rebun inHokkaido
Rebun Location in Japan
Coordinates:45°18′N141°3′E / 45.300°N 141.050°E /45.300; 141.050
Country	Japan
Region	Hokkaido
Prefecture	Hokkaido
District	Rebun District
Area
• Total	81.33 km2 (31.40 sq mi)
Population  (September 30, 2016)
• Total	2,651
• Density	32.60/km2 (84.42/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+09:00 (JST)
City hall address	558-5 Aza Tonnai, Ōaza Kafuka-mura, Hokkaidō 097-1201
Climate	Dfb
Website	www.town.rebun.hokkaido.jp
Symbols
Bird	Japanese robin
Flower	Leontopodium discolor (ezo-usuyuki-sō)
Tree	Juniperus chinensis

Rebun (礼文町,Rebun-chō) is atown located inSōya Subprefecture,Hokkaido,Japan. The district and town both cover the island of the same name:Rebun Island. Rebun Island is famous for its alpine flowers.

Various prehistoric ruins from theOkhotsk culture have been discovered in the areas of Kafukai and Funadomari. Later down the line it seems that there was also the presence of variousAinu, leading to the various remains of castles from the Ainu period, scattered across the area.

In1456 (Kōshō 2): A battle between the Kafukai Ainu and the Isogai Ainu took place near present-day Momoiwa, right next to today's town.

In1685 (Jokyo 2): The area became a soya place directly controlled by theMatsumae Domain, and both the settlements inRishiri and Rebun became their subsidiary places.^[1]

In1765 (Meiwa 2), Rebun, Rishiri, and Soya were declared independent provinces.^[1]

In the later part of theEdo Period, in1819 (Bunsei 2),Ihei Fujino becomes the contractor for the Soya place of the Matsumae domain, developing it.^[1]

1846 (Koka 3): Mannosuke Yanagida, who moved from the Aomori Prefecture, becomes the first immigrant to Shakunin and begins developing fishing grounds, opening the Oshima fishing grounds in Shakunin (Kafuku/Rebun). Up until now the population was mostly Ainu.^[1]

During the Meiji era, the city strengthened its administrative core, as in 1878 (Meiji 11) The village head offices of Rebun County were established in Kafuka. However, in 1892 (Meiji 25), the village of Funadomari was separated, shrinking its size.^[2]

This was part of a larger campaign in the Meiji Era to modernize local administrations, thus part of the famousMeiji Restoration.

Whilst politically, through the establishment of a modern local administration in the area, the Meiji restoration had already reached the town, only by theShowa Period would the construction of a power distribution line be completed in Uchiji village, and only then would the electricity is now distributed to all villages in the Kafuka district, including Rebun.^[1]

On September 20, 1956 ( Showa 31), due to the deterioration of the financial situation of Kafuka Village, the villages of Funadomari and Kafuka merge (to form a new village) known asRebun Village, once again enlarging Rebun's administrative area. This was officialized in 1959 (Showa 34), as the town was incorporated asRebun Town.^[2]

The town covers the entire area ofRebun Island in theSea of Japan. Rebun is located approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) fromWakkanai on mainland Hokkaido and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northwest ofRishiri Island. The entire island is part of theRishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park. Lake Kushu andMount Rebun (Rebun's highest point) are located in the town.

Rebun is well known for its 300 species of alpine flowers, some of which are endemic to the island. For this it has earned the moniker theisland of flowers.^[3] Such flowers include:Cypripedium macranthum Sw. var.rebunense (Kudo) Miyabe et Kudo (Rebun atsumori-sō).

Per Japanese census data,^[6] the population of Rebun has declined in recent decades.

Rebun hosts a flower festival every year.^[7]

Rebun's mascot isAtsumon (あつもん), who is a Rebun lady's slipper orchid (a type of thelarge-flowered cypripedium orchid species). As a flower, its gender is unknown, but its feelings are gentle and calm. It is known to like nature. Its heart (its charm point) is actually the seed of happiness from fourteen different native flowers. However, it will not tolerate anyone harming nature (especially seedlings). If damage is done to nature, its heart will stop beating. It was unveiled in September 2012.^[8]

With its location in the far north of Japan, Rebun has been the site of the mostviolations of Japanese airspace. From 1967 to 2017 14 of the 39 violations of Japanese airspace have been near Rebun. This is the most of any location in Japan. They were all by either Soviet aircraft during theCold War or by Russian aircraft after 1991.

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  Elementary school in Rebun
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  Cape Sukai
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  Kafuka Port

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