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  2. Itabashi - Wikipedia

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    Itabashi (板橋区, Itabashi-ku) is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. In English, it is called Itabashi City . Itabashi has sister-city relations with Burlington, Ontario , in Canada; Shijingshan District of Beijing in the People's Republic of China; and Bologna in Italy.

  3. Shigeichi Negishi - Wikipedia

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    Negishi was born in the ward of Itabashi in Tokyo, Japan on November 29, 1923. [2] His mother ran a tobacco store and his father was a public official who oversaw regional elections. As a child, he made cardboard cityscapes [2] and gained a reputation for studiousness, winning a national calligraphy competition at the age of eleven. [1]

  4. Special wards of Tokyo - Wikipedia

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    Kobayashi et al. (also known as Tokyo Ward Autonomy Case). [citation needed] In 1998, the National Diet passed a revision of the Local Autonomy Law (effective in the year 2000) that implemented the conclusions of the Final Report on the Tokyo Ward System Reform increasing their fiscal autonomy and established the wards as basic local public ...

  5. Akatsuka Park - Wikipedia

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    The park contains a 70 m wide hilly area, which corresponds to the cliffline of the Musashino Terrace, and it extends for 2.3 km. Part of this area is a bird sanctuary.. Further, soft windflower, the official flower of Itabashi Ward, grows naturally in a forest that covers these hills (the Daimon area of Akatsuka Pa

  6. Toshima clan - Wikipedia

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    The clan made its chief seat of governance in the area around the Hiratsuka Shrine in what is today the Nakazato area of Tokyo's North Ward , and expanded their influence over the years to cover a much wider area, delegating much of it to branch families such as the Miyagi, Takinogawa, Shimura, and Itabashi clans. The Toshima obtained and moved ...

  7. Tōbu-Nerima Station - Wikipedia

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    The area around the station was absorbed into the City of Tokyo in 1932, all becoming part of Itabashi Ward, and it was not until 1947 that the former town of Nerima was split off from Itabashi Ward to become Nerima Ward. [3] From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on the Tobu Tojo Line, with Tōbu-Nerima Station becoming "TJ-08". [4]

  8. Wards of Japan - Wikipedia

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    A ward (区, ku) is a subdivision of the cities of Japan that are large enough to have been designated by government ordinance. [1] Wards are used to subdivide each city designated by government ordinance ("designated city").

  9. Tokyo 11th district - Wikipedia

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    Parts of Itabashi Tokyo's 11th district is an electoral district of the House of Representatives , the lower house of Japan's National Diet . [ 1 ] The district was established in 1994 as part of the move to single-member districts , and since its first election in 1996 it has only been held by the Liberal Democratic Party's Hakubun Shimomura .