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Tokyo (Japan)
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Tokyo is capital of Japan and the largest city in the world. The city proper, consisting of 23 boroughs...
... has a population almost 12 million people. Greater Tokyo, which has an area of 785 square miles( 2,000 sq km), has a population of 35 million. At its centre are the moated Imperial Palace grounds, around which major thoroughfares form a radial pattern. South of the palace grounds lies the government district.
To the east is the Marunouchi business district, with huge modern concrete buildings surrounding Tokyo Central Station. Nearby is the Ginza, the amusement and shopping area. In the northern part of Tokyo is Ueno Park, with its zoo, museums and art galleries.
Industries include shipyards, motor-car and aircraft plants, machinery, textile and chemical factories. Tokyo, which was formerly called Yedo, owes its rise to the Tokugawa shoguns (military governors) of Japan, who made the city their headquarters in 1603, while Kyoto remained the imperial capital.
In the late 18th century, Yedo had a population of 1,400,000, making it one of the world's largest cities at that date. With the restoration of imperial power in 1868, the emperor moved his capital from Kyoto to Yedo, which he renamed Tokyo ("eastern capital").
The disastrous earthquake of 1923, and fire in 1925, destroyed nearly half the city, which was then rebuilt along modern lines. In World War II, Tokyo was devastated by bombing, and its population reduced from the war 6.5 million to 3 million. Post-war recovery has been rapid.
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