is an area in the eastern portion of

Shinjuku , officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world ( Shinjuku Station) as well as the Tokyo Metropol ...

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Places in Ichigaya

Hosei University formerly known as Tokyo University of Law (東京法学社, Tokyo Hogakusha) is a top research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Hosei University and four other private universities in Tokyo are collectively known as "MARCH (Japanese univers ...

Ichigaya Campus *

Chuo University , commonly referred to as or , is a private research university in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. The university finds its roots in a school called Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (English Law School), which was founded in 1885, and became a university in 1 ...

Graduate School *

Ministry of Defense A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divided ...

headquarters: Formerly GHQ of the

Imperial Japanese Army The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; , ''Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun'', "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan from 1871 to 1945. It played a central role in Japan’s rapid modernization during th ...

; following

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, the building became the headquarters for the

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Eastern Army.

Mishima Yukio Kimitake Hiraoka ( , ''Hiraoka Kimitake''; 14 January 192525 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima ( , ''Mishima Yukio''), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, ultranationalist, and the leader of an at ...

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 , established in 1876, is a Japanese printing company which operates its printing in three areas: information communications, lifestyle and industrial supplies, and electronics. The company is involved in a wide variety of printing processes, ran ...

*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. It was founded in 1995 as Tecmo Creative #3, a division of Tecmo headed by Tomonobu Itagaki. It is best known for franchises such as '' Ninja Gaiden'', ''Dead or Alive'' and '' ...

Metro stations

* Akebonobashi Station (Toei Shinjuku Line) *

Ichigaya Station is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The Number of Passengers on Ichigaya as recorded by the East Japan Railway Company Trains in 2017-2022 was 15,274 . Lines The ground-level section of the station is managed by the East Japan Railwa ...

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