Chiyoda

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Chiyoda-ku
千代 田 区
Chiyoda
Geographical location in Japan
Chiyoda (Japan)
Red pog.svg
Region : Kanto
Prefecture : Tokyo
Coordinates : 35 ° 42 '  N , 139 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 35 ° 41 '38 "  N , 139 ° 45' 8"  E
Basic data
Surface: 11.64 km²
Residents : 65,472
(October 1, 2019)
Population density : 5625 inhabitants per km²
Community key : 13101-6
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Flag / coat of arms of Chiyoda
Tree : jaw
Flower : Cherry Blossom
Bird : swan
town hall
Address : Chiyoda City Hall
1 - 6 - 11 , Kudan-Minami
Chiyoda-ku
Tōkyō  102-8688
Website URL: http://www.city.chiyoda.tokyo.jp/
Location of Chiyodas in Tokyo Prefecture
Location of Chiyodas in the prefecture
Parliament building in Chiyoda
Ōtemon , the great gate of Edo Castle
The former building of the Tokyo Prefecture Administration ( Tōkyō-to-chōsha , English Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building ) in Marunouchi around 1960, completed in 1957 .

Chiyoda ( Japanese 千代 田 区 , - ku ) is one of the 23 "special districts" in the east of the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . The district is located in the center of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , and is the location of the Imperial Palace , the national parliament , the official seat of the Prime Minister and numerous other government institutions. In addition, the headquarters of numerous large companies are in Chiyoda.

With less than 50,000 inhabitants, Chiyoda is by far the most populous district in Tokyo and thus - apart from the remote Pacific Islands and the district of Nishitama - the smallest municipality in terms of population in Tokyo Prefecture. The 44,000+ companies based in Chiyoda provide work for nearly 900,000 people, but the daytime population is more than 20 times the nighttime population. The name Chiyoda, literally "Field of a Thousand Generations", comes from the Edo Castle , where the Shogun resided until the Meiji Restoration .

history

The Chiyoda district consists of the Imperial Palace , the former Edo Castle , and the surrounding areas within a radius of about one kilometer. As the seat of the Shogun , the Imperial Palace was the political center of Japan as early as the Edo period . Around the castle were the residences of the individual daimyo , who were obliged to bring their families to Edo and spend half their time there themselves. In 1860 the shogunate official Ii Naosuke was murdered in front of the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

During the Meiji Restoration in 1871, the daimyates were abolished and the land was confiscated by the new central government. From then on, the emperor resided in the castle, while the daimyo's lands were used for government buildings.

In 1932, the attack on Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi took place here. The attempted coup of February 26, 1936 was also centered in Chiyoda.

A district became Chiyoda on March 15, 1947 by the union of the former boroughs Kanda , the northeast area around the Akihabara station around, and Kōjimachi , the Imperial Palace and former samurai district of the city ​​of Tokyo . Until 1991, when the prefectural government moved to Shinjuku , Chiyoda was the administrative seat of Tokyo Prefecture.

On August 30, 1974, the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front bombed the headquarters of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , killing 8 and injuring 376. The mu Shinrikyō (Aum sect) poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway on March 20, 1995 was carried out while the trains were crossing the Chiyoda district.

Districts

The Chiyoda District consists of the following districts (for a full list, see the list of districts in Chiyoda District of Tokyo ):

  • The eponymous district of Chiyoda is located in the center of the district and consists only of the palace with the Imperial Court Office and the "Eastern Garden" ( Higashi-Gyoen ) open to the public
    • Immediately to the north is the Kitanomaru Park , which according to the address forms its own district, there is the Nippon Budōkan , a martial arts hall that is also used for large concerts.
    • Kōkyo-gaien , the “outer palace gardens”, also nominally forms its own district , de facto no more than the extensive eastern forecourt of the palace grounds. After the war he was separated from the palace and is together with the Kitanomaru Park "Volkspark" ( 国民 公園 , kokumin kōen ; managed by the Ministry of the Environment special category for formerly imperial parks and cemeteries). In the immediate post-war period it was the scene of political rallies and demonstrations, including the "bloody May Day" ( Chi no May Day ) of 1952.
  • To the west and south-west of the palace are three districts, which are the seat of the most important constitutional organs:
  • South of the palace is Hibiya , the area around Hibiya Park , a large park.
  • To the east of the palace there are several districts in which mainly office buildings of large companies are located:
    • Marunouchi : Located in the southeast between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace. Since the Meiji period , it has been a business and banking district with the headquarters of the largest banks and insurance companies in Japan. The Tōkyō Kokusai Forum is also located here. Tokyo International Forum , a modern convention center on the site of the former Prefectural Administration and City Hall of the former City of Tokyo.
    • Ōtemachi : Located north of Marunouchi and part of the business district around Tokyo Station.
    • Yūrakuchō is located south of Marunouchi and is also part of the business district around Tokyo Station. General Douglas MacArthur resided here during the occupation .
  • To the north and northwest of the Imperial Palace lies Kudan . This is where the Yasukuni Shrine and the Kudanshita Transfer Station are located . The Chiyoda City Hall is also located here.
  • In the northeast of the district is Kanda , which was a separate district at the time of the city ​​of Tokyo . This is where the well-known electronics district Akihabara , the Kanda Shrine and the Resurrection Cathedral Tokyo (Nikolai-dō), the main church of the Orthodox Church in Japan, are located .
  • North-west of the government district are:

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education

Chiyoda has one district-run, two prefecture-run and numerous private high schools. Among other things, two renowned private universities have their headquarters in Chiyoda, the Jesuit Sophia University and the Hōsei University , one of the elite six universities of Tokyo . In addition, the central Hitotsubashi University and several private universities maintain campuses in the district, especially in Kudan and Kanda in the north and northeast.

There are also several memorial institutions in Chiyoda, including the National Parliamentary Library , the National Archives , the Chiyoda Library ( 千代 田 図 書館 , Chiyoda Toshokan ), the Yonbanchō Library ( 四 番 町 図 書館 , Yonbanchō Toshokan ), the Kanda Machikado Library ( 神 ち図. 神 ち図 書館図書館 , ~ Toshokan ) that Shohei Machikado library ( 昌平まちかど図書館 , ~ Toshokan ), the Science Museum Tokyo ( 科学技術館 , Kagaku Gijutsukan ), the main building and crafts gallery of the National Museum of modern Art , the Idemitsu Museum of Arts , the Mitsuo Aida Museum or the former collection of the Satake princely family Senshū Bunko .

politics

Political groups in Parliament
(as of May 28, 2019)
    
A total of 25 seats
Chiyoda City Hall in the Kudan-Minami district

Mayor of Chiyoda is in his fifth term Masami Ishikawa, a former prefectural official and board member of Shuto Kōsokudōro . He was last in February 2017 with the support of Governor Yuriko Koike against the LDP-supported Makoto Yosano (a nephew of Kaoru Yosano , formerly for the 1st constituency of Tokyo in the House of Representatives) and Asao Igarashi (brother of Tatsuo Igarashi , the mayor of the City of Tsukuba in Ibaraki) confirmed in office. The local parliament regularly has 25 members and is elected in uniform regional elections (most recently: 2019 ). In 2019, 37 candidates applied, 522 votes were enough for an election.

For the prefecture parliament, the district has the second highest voting weight before the island constituency. The single-mandate constituency was represented by Liberal Democrats for more than four decades before the then 26-year-old Democrat Zenkō Kurishita ended the winning streak in the 2009 election . In the 2013 election , the liberal democrat Shigeru Uchida, who had previously held the seat since 1989, won Chiyoda back for the LDP. For election in July 2017 to Uchida moved back in the prefecture-wide LDP landslide defeat Chiyoda went to Takaaki Higuchi of Koike's prefectural Party Tomin First no Kai .

For the national House of Representatives , Chiyoda, together with parts of Shinjuku and Minato, forms the constituency of Tokyo 1 , which was narrowly won by the constitutional democrat Banri Kaieda (40.7%) against the liberal democrat Miki Yamada (39.4%) in the 2017 election.

sons and daughters of the town

Neighboring cities and communities

Web links

Commons : Chiyoda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [[Ministry of Environment (Japan) |]]: Kōkyogaien (Japanese)
  2. ^ Chiyoda district parliament : parliamentary groups , accessed June 8, 2019.
  3. ^ Conference of Mayors of the Special Districts ( Tokubetsukuchōkai ), Acting Mayor: Chiyoda
  4. ↑ 千代 田 区長 選 、 小池 知事 支援 の 現 職 が 当選 . In: nikkei.com . February 5, 2017, Retrieved February 6, 2017 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ 千代 田 区長 選 小池 知事 が 支援 の 現 職 ・ 石川氏 が ５ 選 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. February 6, 2017, Retrieved May 12, 2019 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ Backed by Tokyo Gov. Koike, incumbent Chiyoda Ward mayor wins fifth term . In: The Japan Times . February 5, 2017, accessed February 6, 2017 .
  7. ↑ 統一 地方 選 ２０１９> 東京> 千代 田 区 議 選 . In: Tōkyō Shimbun TOKYO Web. April 2019, accessed on May 12, 2019 (Japanese).