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Today, all wards refer to themselves as a city in English, but the Japanese designation of special ward (tokubetsu-ku) remains unchanged. They are a group of 23 municipalities; there is no associated single government body separate from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which governs all 62 municipalities of Tokyo, not just the special wards.
Tokyo, wards of Kita and part of Itabashi: 378,264 Kei Takagi [15] LDP 13th district [changed 1] Tokyo, part of the ward of Adachi: 387,664 Shin Tsuchida [10] LDP 14th district [changed 1] Tokyo, wards of Sumida and part of Edogawa: 402,475 Midori Matsushima [9] LDP 15th district [changed 1] Tokyo, ward of Kōtō: 427,908 Natsumi Sakai [18] LDP ...
The special wards (特別区, tokubetsu-ku) are 23 municipalities that together make up the core and the most populous part of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. Together, they occupy the land that was originally the Tokyo City before it was abolished in 1943 to become part of the newly created Tokyo Metropolis.
Administratively, today's special wards are almost indistinguishable from other municipalities. The postwar reforms also changed the map of Tokyo significantly: In 1947, the 35 wards were reorganised into the 23 special wards, because many of its citizens had either died during the war, left the city, or been drafted and did not return.
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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").
Tokyo's 13th district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. [ 1 ] It has been held by Shin Tsuchida from the Liberal Democratic Party since 2021 .
Each such special ward has a status equivalent to a city in Japan. In this way they differ from ordinary wards within cities. See also: Category:Wards of cities in Japan and Category:Dissolved municipalities of Tokyo.