Meguro ( 目黒区 , Meguro-ku ) 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.
7-578: Komazawa Olympic Park (駒沢オリンピック公園) located on land in both Meguro and Setagaya , Tokyo , Japan , is a sports facility that was constructed for the 1964 Summer Olympics . Approximately 90 per cent of the park's area is in Setagaya Ward, with the remaining 10 per cent sitting within Meguro Ward. The park includes an outdoor athletic and soccer venue, the Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium ,
14-587: The Komazawa Gymnasium and multiple additional soccer, baseball, swimming, tennis, jogging and cycling facilities. The area was once the "Tokyo Golf Club". Emperor Hirohito played golf there with King George V of the United Kingdom. It was to be developed into the main venue of the 1940 Summer Olympics , which were cancelled due to the Second Sino-Japanese War . In 1953 it became the base of
21-541: The Toei Flyers baseball team. Redevelopment began from 1962 onwards in preparation for the 1964 Olympics. Meguro, Tokyo 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,
28-503: 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
35-514: 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
42-524: 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
49-497: 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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