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Meguro 目黒区 | |
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| Meguro City | |
 Flag  Emblem | |
 Location of Meguro inTokyo Metropolis | |
  Meguro Location in Japan | |
| Coordinates:35°38′N139°41′E / 35.633°N 139.683°E /35.633; 139.683 | |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Kantō |
| Prefecture | Tokyo Metropolis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Eiji Aoki |
| Area | |
• Total | 14.67 km2 (5.66 sq mi) |
| Population (October 1, 2020[1]) | |
• Total | 288,088 |
| • Density | 19,637/km2 (50,860/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+09:00 (JST) |
| Website | www |
| Symbols | |
| Bird | Great tit |
| Flower | Lespedeza |
| Tree | Castanopsis |
Meguro (目黒区,Meguro-ku;Japanese pronunciation:[meꜜ.ɡɯ.ɾo,-ŋɯ.ɾo,me.ɡɯ.ɾoꜜ.kɯ,-ŋɯ.ɾoꜜ.kɯ][2][a]) is aspecial ward in theTokyo Metropolis inJapan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation isMeguro City.[3][4] The ward was founded on March 15, 1947.
Meguro is predominantly residential in character, but is also home to light industry, corporate head offices, the Komaba campus ofUniversity of Tokyo as well as fifteen foreign embassies and consulates. Residential neighborhoods includeJiyugaoka, Kakinokizaka, andNakameguro. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimatedpopulation of 277,171 and apopulation density of 18,890 persons per km2. The total area is 14.67 km2.
Meguro is also used to refer to the area aroundMeguro Station, which is not located in Meguro ward, but in neighboringShinagawa'sKamiōsaki district.[5]
The Higashiyamashell mound in the north of the ward contains remains from thePaleolithic,Jōmon,Yayoi, andKofun periods.
The area now known as Meguro was formerly two towns, Meguro proper and Hibusuma, all parts of the former Ebara District ofMusashi Province. The two were merged into a Meguro ward forTokyo City in 1932 and since then the ward has remained with no alterations to its territory.[6]
The name "Meguro", meaning "black eyes", derives from the Meguro Fudō (Black-eyedFudō-myōō) ofRyūsenji. The Meguro Fudō was one of five Fudō-myōō statues placed at strategic points on the outskirts ofEdo in the early seventeenth century by the abbotTenkai, an advisor toTokugawa Ieyasu, to provide protection for the new capital of the Tokugawa shogunate.[7] Each statue had eyes of a different color. (Mejiro, a district inToshima ward, is named for the white-eyed Fudō-myōō).
Four other special wards surround Meguro. They areShibuya (to the northeast),Setagaya (to the west),Ōta (to the south), andShinagawa (to the southeast).
Meguro ward government is led by the city assembly with 36 elected members with current terms from May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2015. The chairman of the council is Yoshiaki Ito.[citation needed] The mayor is Eiji Aoki, an independent. His term lasts until April 24, 2016.[citation needed]
Metropolitan high schools are operated by theTokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.
In addition the metropolis operates a consolidated junior and senior high school in Meguro calledŌshūkan Secondary School.
Municipal elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Meguro City Board of Education.
Municipal junior high schools:[12]
Municipal elementary schools:[13]
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