Arakawa, Tokyo Nature Park Public elementary and middle schools are operated by the Arakawa City Board of Education. Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education. The Tokyo First Korean Elementary and Junior High School (), a North Korean school, is in the ward. The metropolis operated the Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering in Arakawa until 2010. Additional facilities are under construction. Arakawa, Tokyo Arakawa has sister-city relationships with Donaustadt in Vienna, Austria, and with Corvallis, Oregon, U.S. Domestically, it has similar relationships with nine cities, towns and villages. As of May 1, 2015, the ward
Alan Arakawa Alan Arakawa Alan M. Arakawa (born 1951) is an American politician who is the 7th Mayor of the County of Maui in Hawaii. He previously served as the 5th Maui mayor from 2002 to 2006. Arakawa graduated from Maui High School and attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a business major. He then entered civil service in 1984 as a wastewater plant worker for Maui County. He rose to the post of supervisor in the wastewater division of the Department of Public Works and was both a United Public Workers Chief Steward and a Hawai'i Government Employees Association