Sumida ( 墨田区 , Sumida-ku ) is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan . The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Sumida City .
6-617: Yokoamichō Park ( 横網町公園 , Yokoamichō kōen ) is a public park in the Yokoami district of Sumida, Tokyo , Japan. Following the Great Kantō earthquake on 1 September 1923, as many as 44,000 people were killed in the park when it was swept by a firestorm . Following this disaster the park became the location of the main memorial to the earthquake; the Earthquake Memorial Hall and a nearby charnel house containing
12-447: A sign reading "The massacre of Koreans is a lie". This has resulted in violence on some occasions, including in 2019. For the ceremony on 1 September 2020, 700 police officers were stationed in the park, and no violent incidents occurred. In 2022, it was reported that the then Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike had controversially declined to send a commemorative message for the sixth year in a row. Sumida, Tokyo As of 1 March 2023,
18-527: The Japan–Korea Association ( 日朝協会 , Niccho Kyokai ) has held a memorial ceremony in the park in memory of the victims of the Kantō Massacre , which targeted Korean and Chinese people in the region. However, the memorial ceremony is regularly met with counter protests, especially by the organization Japan Women's Group Gentle Breeze ( 日本女性の会そよ風 ) . For example, in 2020, the group displayed
24-564: The ashes of 58,000 victims of the earthquake. Following World War II , the park also became the location of the main memorial to the victims of the Bombing of Tokyo in 1944 and 1945. The ashes of 105,400 people killed in the raids were interred in Yokoamichō Park between 1948 and 1951. A memorial to the people killed in the raids was opened in the park in March 2001. Every year since 1974,
30-404: The north; Arakawa to the northwest; Katsushika to the east; Edogawa to the southeast; Taitō to the west; Chūō to the southwest; and Kōtō to the south. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947. It was previously the (ordinary) wards Honjo and Mukojima. Mukojima, formed in 1932, contained the former town of Sumida, which along with the river gave the ward its name. As of 2023, the mayor
36-526: The ward has an estimated population of 277,058 and a population density of 20,120 persons per km . Its total area is 13.77 km . Sumida's city office is located in Azumabashi, while its commercial center is the area around Kinshicho Station in the south. Sumida is in the north-eastern part of the mainland portion of Tokyo. The Sumida and Arakawa are the major rivers, and form parts of its boundaries. Its neighbors are all special wards: Adachi to
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