Meguro

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Meguro-ku
目 黒 区
Meguro
Geographical location in Japan
Meguro (Japan)
Red pog.svg
Region : Kanto
Prefecture : Tokyo
Coordinates : 35 ° 38 '  N , 139 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 35 ° 38 '29 "  N , 139 ° 41' 53"  E
Basic data
Surface: 14.70 km²
Residents : 287,776
(October 1, 2019)
Population density : 19,577 inhabitants per km²
Community key : 13110-5
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Flag / coat of arms of Meguro
Tree : Shii castanopsis
Flower : Hagi shrub
Bird : Great tit
town hall
Address : Meguro City Hall
2 - 19 - 15 , Kamimeguro
Meguro-ku
Tōkyō  153-8573
Website URL: http://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp
Location Meguros in Tokyo Prefecture
Location of Meguros in the prefecture

Meguro ( Japanese 目 黒 区 , - ku ) is one of the 23 boroughs of Tokyo , the capital of Japan .

geography

Meguro lies between Shibuya in the northeast, Setagaya in the west, Ōta in the south and Shinagawa in the southwest.

The district is primarily a residential area, but also a diplomatic quarter, as the embassies of Egypt , Algeria , Bangladesh , Djibouti , Gabon , Kazakhstan , Kenya , Kyrgyzstan , Cuba , Nigeria , Poland , Senegal , Uganda and Uzbekistan , as well as the honorary consulate general from Iceland are located here.

history

The area of ​​today's Meguro district was already settled during the Stone Age, the Jōmon , the Yayoi and the Kofun times, as excavations at Higashiyama- Køkkenmøddinger have shown.

From the 9th century, three of the temples and shrines of the district, the Ōtori shrine ( 大鳥 神社 , Ōtori-jinja ), the Meguro-Fudōson and the Hōgan-ji ( 法眼 寺 ) date . The black eyes ( meguro ) of the Fudo statue gave the district its name.

The municipality was created on October 1, 1932, when the Machi Meguro ( 目 黒 町 , -machi ) and Hibusuma ( 碑 衾 町 , -machi ) were incorporated into Tokyo and merged into the Meguro district.

traffic

Meguro Station is not in Meguro, but in Shinagawa.

Facilities

Universities

Religious institutions

  • Himonya Church (Catholic)
  • Himonya Hachimon Shrine
  • Ōtori shrine
  • Ryūsen-ji, also known as Meguro Fudo Temple.
  • Yūten-ji
  • Taieizan-ryūzenji ( 泰 叡 山 瀧 泉 寺 ), also known as Meguro-Fudōson ( 目 黒 不 動 尊 ), a temple of the Tendai school .
  • Enyū-ji ( 円 融 寺 ) or Hōgan-ji ( 法眼 寺 )

politics

Political groups in parliament
(as of May 25, 2020; 1 vacancy)
      
A total of 35 seats
  • LDP : 10
  • Kōmeitō : 6
  • KDP・ Meguro Forum: 5
  • KPY : 5
  • Shinpū Meguro ("Fresh Wind Meguro"; non- party): 3
  • Non-attached: 6
The town hall in Kami-Meguro ("Upper Meguro")

The former Democratic Prefectural Member of Parliament Eiji Aoki was elected Mayor of Meguro in 2004 and was last elected Mayor of Meguro on April 19, 2020 with 33% voter turnout with LDP - Kōmeitō -support against the opposition-supported ( KDP , KPJ , SDP , Net ) previous local MPs Hiroko Yamamoto and the Ishin - nominated doctor Masafumi Tabuchi confirmed in office. The regular 36 MPs in the local parliament were last elected in the uniform regional elections in 2019 .

In the last election in 2017 , Meguro elected one candidate each from Tomin First no Kai , Kōmeitō and KPJ to the prefecture parliament . The two LDP incumbents were voted out.

For the national House of Representatives, the majority of Meguro is part of the 5th constituency of the prefecture, which the Liberal Democrat Kenji Wakamiya has represented since 2012 . He was re-elected in the 2017 election with 41.1% of the vote. Since the 2017 election, part of the district in the north has been part of the 7th constituency of Tokyo, which otherwise mainly includes the Shibuya district and whose MP has been the Democrat Akira Nagatsuma since 2009 .

Neighboring cities and communities

Color woodcut by Hokusai with a view of Mount Fuji from Shimo-Meguro ("Unter-Meguro")

Web links

Commons : Meguro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meguro district parliament : Members by parliamentary group , accessed on June 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ 目 黒 区長 選 、 青木 さ ん が ５ 選… 投票 率 は 前 回 上 回 る . In: Yomiuri Shimbun Online. April 19, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 統一 地方 選 ２０１９> 東京> 目 黒 区 議 選 . In: Tōkyō Shimbun . Chūnichi Shimbunsha , April 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ Tōkyō Shimbun : Election results of the Tokyo Prefectural Parliament 2017, Meguro-ku