is an area in the eastern portion of

Shinjuku is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative centre, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world (Shinjuku Station) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration ...

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Places in Ichigaya

Hosei University is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan. The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha (, i.e. Tokyo association of law), established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō (, i.e. Tokyo school of law ...

Ichigaya Campus *

Chuo University , commonly referred to as or , is a private flagship research university in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (the English Law School), Chuo is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the country. The univer ...

Graduate School *

Ministry of Defense {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in state ...

headquarters: Formerly GHQ of the

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; following

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, the building became the headquarters for the

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force ( ja, 陸上自衛隊, Rikujō Jieitai), , also referred to as the Japanese Army, is the land warfare branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Created on July 1, 1954, it is the largest of the three service b ...

Eastern Army.

Mishima Yukio , born , was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the , an unarmed civilian militia. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered fo ...

committed suicide here in 1970. It became Defense Agency headquarters in May 2000 when the previous headquarters in Akasaka were closed to make way for

Tokyo Midtown is a 569,000-square-meter (6.1 million sq ft) mixed-use development in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan. Completed in March 2007, the $3 billion (¥370 billion) project includes office, residential, commercial, hotel, and leisure space, and the new quarte ...

. In 2007 the organization became a ministry. The Memorial Zone for JSDF personnel is located to the east of the Defense Ministry headquarters. * Japanese Go Association

Companies based in Ichigaya

*Borland Japan * Dai Nippon Printing *Informatica Corporation Japan *

Nakano Corporation , is a Japanese multinational general construction contractor engaging in design, construction, civil engineering, technical assistance, and real estate development projects for its clients, which include corporations, governments and individuals. ...

Team Ninja is a Japanese video game developer, and a division of Koei Tecmo, founded in 1995 as a part of Tecmo. It is founded and formerly led by Tomonobu Itagaki, later by Yosuke Hayashi, and is best known for the ''Ninja Gaiden'' action-adventure gam ...

Metro stations

Akebonobashi Station is a subway station on the Toei Shinjuku Line in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Toei Subway. Its station number is S-03. Lines Akebonobashi Station is served by the Toei Shinjuku Line. Platforms Akebonobashi Station consists of two side pl ...

(Toei Shinjuku Line) *

Ichigaya Station is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Lines The ground-level section of the station is managed by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and the underground sections are managed by Tokyo Metro and Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transpo ...

(JR Chūō Local Line, Namboku Line, Toei Shinjuku Line, Yūrakuchō Line) - The JR and Toei platforms are located across the river in Chiyoda. *

Ushigome-yanagichō Station is a subway station on the Toei Oedo Line in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation The , also known as , is a bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government which operates ...

(Toei Ōedo Line) {{Authority control Neighborhoods of Tokyo Shinjuku