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Tokyo

Tokyo

Tokyo (東京) is the capital of Japan Ten percent (10) of the Japanese people live in

Tokyo and as many as twenty percent (20) of the population live around it As of

2007 the population was 12790000 Tokyo is the center of business trade and

industry of Japan and also of Asia

Tokyo is in a part of Japan called the Kanto plain It faces Tokyo bay Two rivers run

through Tokyo One is the Sumida River which runs from the north to the south and

flows into Tokyo bay The other is the Tama River which runs from the west to the east

The Tama River is a border between Tokyo and its neighbor city Kawasaki

Tokyo means the Eastern capital in Japanese It became the capital of Japan in the

middle of 19th century when its name changed from Edo to Tokyo Before then

Kyoto was the capital of Japan The emperor of Japan Tenno lived in Kyoto Edo was

the place where the Tokugawa Shoguns lived The city grew up under the control of the

Shoguns Before then it was a small town on the sea Edo means the mouth of a river

in Japanese

Tokyo was destroyed by fires started by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 It was also

badly damaged by bombs during World War II The most famous bombing was on

March 10 1945 After Japan lost the war the city was rebuilt

Tokyo held the Olympic Games in the summer of 1964

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bull 1 Special wards of Tokyo

bull 2 Other cities

bull 3 Other townsvillages

bull 4 Izu amp Ogasawara Islands

bull 5 Sister cities

bull 6 Other websites

[change] Special wards of Tokyo

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Tokyo has 23 Special wards

bull Chiyoda

bull Chuou

bull Minato

bull Shinjuku

bull Bunkyo

bull Taito

bull Sumida

bull

Koutoubull Meguro

bull Shinagawa

bull Meguro

bull Oota

bull Setagaya

bull Shibuya

bull Nakano

bull Suginami

bull Toshima

bull Kita

bull Arakawabull Itabashi

bull Nerima

bull Adachi

bull Katsusika

bull Edogawa

[change] Other cities

bull Akiruno

bull Inagibull Oume

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bull Kiyose

bull Kunitachi

bull Koganei

bull Kokubunji

bull Kodaira

bull Komaebull Tachikawa

bull Tama

bull Chofu

bull Nishi-tokyo

bull Hachiouji

bull Hamura

bull Higashi-kurume

bull Higashi-murayama

bull Higashi-yamato

bull Hino

bull Fuchu

bull Fussa

bull Machida

bull Mitaka

bull Musashino

bull Musashi-murayama

[change] Other townsvillages

bull Oshima (Town)

bull Kouzushima (village)

bull Toshima (village)

bull Niijima (village)

bull Ogasawara (village)

bull Okutama (Town)

bull Hinode (Town)

bull Hinohara (village)

bull Mizuho (Town)

bull Aogashima (village)

bull Hachijo (Town)

bull Mikurajima(village)bull Miyake (village)

[change] Izu amp Ogasawara Islands

bull ooshima

bull Niijima

bull Shikinejima

bull Mikurajima

bull Miyakejima

bull Hachijojimabull Toshima

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bull Kouzushima

bull Chichijima

bull Hahajima

bull Okinotorishima(South end of Japan)

bull Minamitorishima(East end of Japan)

bull Ioujima（exactnameIoutou）

[change] Sister cities

bull Beijing China

bull Berlin Germany

bull Cairo Egypt

bull Glasgow Scotland United Kingdom

bull Jakarta Indonesia

bull London England United Kingdom

bull Mumbai India bull Algiers Algeria

bull Rome Italy