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9-543: Komaba ( 駒場 ) is a residential neighborhood in the northern area of Meguro, Tokyo , Japan. Consisting of four districts , the neighborhood has a population of 6,847. The neighborhood is known as a center for education being the location of a number of selective entry high schools and the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo . Komaba borders Uehara and Tomigaya in the north, Shōtō , Shinsenchō and Aobadai to

18-635: Is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan . The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City . 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 of University of Tokyo as well as fifteen foreign embassies and consulates. Residential neighborhoods include, Jiyugaoka , Kakinokizaka, and Nakameguro . As of May 1, 2015,

27-653: Is the board of education in Tokyo , Japan . The board directly manages most of the public high schools in all 23 special wards , the Western Tokyo , and all islands under Tokyo 's jurisdiction . In 2019, policies requiring students who do not naturally have black hair to dye it as such were struck down. In 2017, as stated by survey results, 57% of the state-operated schools in the metropolis required students who did not have hair naturally colored black to submit documents proving so. The Japanese Communist Party criticized

36-557: The east, Ohashi and Ikejiri to the south, and Daizawa and Kitazawa to the west. Komaba is served by Komaba-Todaimae Station on the Keio Inokashira Line . Other close-by high schools that are named "Komaba", include: Meguro City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. All of Komaba (1-4 chōme ) is zoned to Komaba Elementary School ( 駒場小学校 ) and No. 1 Junior High School ( 第一中学校 ). Meguro, Tokyo Meguro ( 目黒区 , Meguro-ku )

45-541: The metropolis operates a consolidated junior and senior high school in Meguro called Ōshūkan Secondary School . Municipal elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Meguro City Board of Education. Municipal junior high schools: Municipal elementary schools: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education (東京都教育委員会 Tōkyō-to Kyōiku Iinkai )

54-503: The outskirts of Edo in the early seventeenth century by the abbot Tenkai , an advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu , to provide protection for the new capital of the Tokugawa shogunate. Each statue had eyes of a different color. ( Mejiro , a district in Toshima ward, is named for the white-eyed Fudō-myōō). Four other special wards surround Meguro. They are Shibuya (to the northeast), Setagaya (to

63-465: The ward has an estimated population of 277,171 and a population density of 18,890 persons per km . The total area is 14.67 km . Meguro is also used to refer to the area around Meguro Station , which is not located in Meguro ward, but in neighboring Shinagawa 's Kamiōsaki district. The Higashiyama shell mound in the north of the ward contains remains from the paleolithic , Jōmon , Yayoi , and Kofun periods . The area now known as Meguro

72-524: The west), Ōta (to the south), and Shinagawa (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. The mayor is Eiji Aoki, an independent. His term lasts until April 24, 2016. Metropolitan high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education . In addition

81-497: Was formerly two towns, Meguro proper and Hibusuma, all parts of the former Ebara District of Musashi Province . The two were merged into a Meguro ward for Tokyo City in 1932 and since then the ward has remained with no alterations to its territory. The name "Meguro", meaning "black eyes", derives from the Meguro Fudō (Black-eyed Fudō-myōō ) of Ryūsenji . The Meguro Fudō was one of five Fudō-myōō statues placed at strategic points on

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