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
Shusaku Arakawa Arakawa/Gins book, "The Mechanism of Meaning".) The panels appear as a constellation of views concerning the nature of meaning that made be characterized in broad stroke as "holistic" or as entailments of a holistic view concerning meaning. To date, two editions of "The Mechanism of Meaning" have been made and many of the panels incorporate collaged elements. Arakawa and Madeline Gins are co-founders of the Reversible Destiny Foundation, an organization dedicated to the use of architecture to extend the human lifespan. They have co-authored books, including "Reversible Destiny", which is the catalogue of their Guggenheim exhibition, "Architectural Body" (University of