Saitama (city) city boundaries. The western portion of the city lies on the lowland created by the Arakawa River along with those created by small rivers such as the Moto-Arakawa River, Shiba River, and Ayase River. The rest of the area mostly resides on the Ōmiya Plateau lying in the north-south direction. Dispersed in this region, major rivers flow southward, almost paralleling to one another. Saitama has ten wards ("ku"), which were assigned official colours as of April 2005: Saitama's economy is principally constituted by commercial business. The city is one of many commercial centers of the Greater Tokyo area and serves
Alan Arakawa of the vote. Arakawa won 23 of Maui's 39 election precincts, mostly in South and West Maui, while Tavares won 11 precincts in Central Maui. Both Tavares and Arakawa qualified for the 2010 mayoral general election on November 2, 2010. The race was a rematch of the 2006 mayoral election, in which incumbent Mayor Arakawa was defeated by Tavares. In the final vote tally, Arakawa defeated Tavares with nearly 59% of the vote to her 41%. Alan Arakawa Alan M. Arakawa (born 1951) is an American politician who is the 7th Mayor of the County of Maui in Hawaii. He