Myōgi, Gunma
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Nihongo". was a town located in Kanra District, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
On March 27, 2006, Myōgi was merged into the expanded city of Tomioka.[1]
In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 4,901 and a density of 170.41 persons per km2. The total area was 28.76 km2.
Massacre
On February 7, 1900, a man killed seven people at the Myōgi shrine. he stole a sword from a policeman, killed the chief priest and three attendants, and then turned against the crowd who had rushed to the scene, murdering three other people, before he himself was killed.[2][3][4]