Importance of Tokyo is raised mainly by the two prominent leaders: Tokugawa Ieyasu and Meiji (Meiji). In 1603, after reaching the warlords fighting each other in Japan, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Edo (now Tokyo) as his base. As a result, the city developed rapidly and become one of the largest cities in the world with a population of over 1 million people in the 18th century it became the capital of the country in fact Japan though the emperor lived in Kyoto, the capital of Japan at that time. See Edo.
After 263 years, the shogunate regime was overthrown and the emperor restored Imperial power. In 1869, the Meiji just 17 years old and moved from Kyoto to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (Tokyo) a year earlier. Tokyo is the center of politics, economy and culture of the country, and the king made it a de facto capital of the country as well as the former Edo Castle became the Imperial Palace. The city of Tokyo was established and continues to be the capital until it became a municipality in 1943 and merged with the "Metropolitan Prefecture" of Tokyo.
The building authority Tokyo.
Tokyo, like Osaka, has was designed from the 1900s as the city rail, which means the city built around the large train station with a high population density, so the city rail can be built quite cheaply at the height of the road surface. This is different from the other world cities such as Los Angeles with a low population density mainly for cars, and although the highway was built, the basic design has remained unchanged until today.
Tokyo has experienced two major disasters and significantly recovered from the two events. One is the great Kanto earthquake in 1923, and other disasters are the World War Second (1939-1945). The 1945 fire bombs also destroyed not least two atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Many areas in the city were flattened.
After the war, Tokyo was completely rebuilt, and showcased to the world during the 1964 Olympics held in this city. Tokyo became the largest city in the world in 1965 (the lead from New York). 1970 brought the development of such height Sunshine 60, a new airport and a controversial (Narita International Airport) in Narita (well outside Tokyo), and a population increase to about 11 million people (metropolitan area).
the system of the Tokyo subway and commuter rail lines in the city became the busiest in the world because more and more people move to the area. In the 1980s, real estate prices skyrocketed during the bubble economy: many got rich quick, but the bubble burst in the early 1990s and many companies, banks, and individuals were caught in housing prices decline decrease in value. The economic recession followed, making the 1990s a "lost decade" in Japan, but now it is recovering slowly.
Tokyo still sees new urban development on land less profitable than. Recent works include Ebisu Garden Place, Tennozu Isle, Shiodome, Roppongi Hills, Shinagawa (now also a Shinkansen station), and Tokyo Station (Marunouchi side). The important buildings was demolished to make room for the more modern supermarket as Omotesando hills. The land reclamation projects in Tokyo have also been going on for centuries. Most prominent is the Odaiba area, now a shopping center and entertainment.
Tokyo was devastated by the earthquake in 1703, 1782, 1812, 1855 and 1923. The earthquake in 1923, the Convention calculated at about 8.3 magnitude, killing 142,000 people.
there are many different projects proposed to move the authority of the state from Tokyo to a second capital in another region of Japan, to reduced rapid development in Tokyo and revive the lagging regions economically. These projects have been controversial in Japan and has not been done.
Due to the method of evolution in Japanese letters are transliterated into Romaji, older texts may refer to the city as "Tokio."
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