A ward (区, ku) is a subdivision of the cities of Japan that are large enough to have been designated by government ordinance. Wards are used to subdivide...

Special wards (特別区, tokubetsu-ku) are a special form of municipalities in Japan under the 1947 Local Autonomy Law. They are city-level wards: primary subdivisions...

total as of January 2014. There are four types of municipalities in Japan: cities, towns, villages and special wards of Tokyo (ku). In Japanese, this system...

special wards/former Tokyo City, yet the special wards public safety commission was not named by the special ward governments, but by the government of the...

Chūō-ku (中央区 Chūō-ku) may refer to wards of Japan: Chūō-ku, Sapporo Chūō-ku, Saitama Chūō-ku, Chiba Chūō, Tokyo Chūō-ku, Sagamihara Chūō-ku, Niigata Chūō-ku...

dissolution of Tokyo City in 1943, Tōkyō-fu (Tokyo Prefecture) was upgraded into Tōkyō-to and the former Tokyo City's wards were upgraded into special wards. The...

municipality Wards of Japan Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom Wards of the City of London Wards of Tanzania Ward (United States) For more...

form of the designated city system was enacted under Japan local government system in 1878 with the introduction of "wards." Under that system, wards existed...

The city of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan has eleven wards. Unlike the 23 special wards of Tokyo, the wards of Kyoto are not separate municipalities...

types Regions of Japan (unofficial) Prefectures of Japan Subprefectures of Japan Districts of Japan Municipalities of Japan Wards of Japan From north to...

and Kyoto were each subdivided into several such wards. In Tokyo Prefecture, this created 15 wards (listed below) and six counties/districts. In 1888...

of Tokyo ceased to exist on July 1, 1943. Tokyo now exists as a special metropolis prefecture (都 to), with 23 special wards (with the same status of city)...

the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central 23 special wards (which...

district of Setagaya ward, Tokyo, Japan. Gōtoku-ji is a Sōtō Zen temple and served as the Bodai-ji (bodhi temple) of the Ii clan, who were lords of the Hikone...

it. Municipalities of Japan List of villages in Japan List of cities in Japan Japanese addressing system "Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows towns...

Shinjuku (Japanese: 新宿区, Hepburn: Shinjuku-ku, IPA: [ɕiɲdʑɯkɯ] ), officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial...

been reclassified as special wards (特別区, tokubetsu-ku). The twenty three special wards currently have the legal status of cities, with individual mayors...

by order of the Cabinet of Japan are called designated cities, and are subdivided into wards (ku, 区), where in the prefecture of Tokyo, 23 of them are...

units, a measure of viscosity of paint Wards of Japan (区, ku), a type of city subdivision Kū or Kū-ka-ili-moku, the Hawaiian god of politics, agriculture...

in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million in the 2020 census, it is also the largest component of the...

unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as towns (町, machi) and villages (村, mura), with the difference that they are not a component of districts...

Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (日本航空株式会社, Nihon Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha, JAL) is the flag carrier of Japan. JAL is headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its main...

transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The southernmost of the 23 special wards, Ōta borders the special wards of Shinagawa, Meguro and Setagaya to the north, and...

town) Wards. Kita was officially formed in 1947 by the merger of these wards. The name Kita, meaning "north," reflects the location among the wards of Tokyo...

governments Special wards of Tokyo (since 1947), city-independent/city-level wards Special cities of China, now known as the municipalities of China City with...

of Japan include Japanese population, birth and death rates, age distribution, population density, ethnicity, education level, healthcare system of the...

prefecture-independent cities (in an analogous way, special wards are city-independent wards). They were the legal successors to the 1922 "six major cities"...

hiragana みなみ) is a Japanese word meaning "south". There are several Minami wards in Japan, most of them appropriately in the south part of a city: Minami...

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the...

Higashisumiyoshi-ku (東住吉区) is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. Nagai Park Nagai Botanical Garden Nagai Stadium Yanmar Field Nagai Yodoko Sakura Stadium...