| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) |
| Series |
Historical dictionaries of cities, states, and regions |
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Historical dictionaries of cities, states, and regions.
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| Contents |
Chronology -- Maps -- Photographs -- The dictionary -- Appendix 1: Area and population of Tokyo's wards and municipalities -- Appendix 2: Population of Tokyo metropolis by year -- Appendix 3: Tokyo's chief executives -- Appendix 4: Tokyo's tallest buildings |
| Summary |
Tokyo is Japan's largest city and its capital. It is also one of the largest cities in the world and a major center of global economic influence. The origins of human settlement in what is today Tokyo are lost in prehistory. The city started out quite modestly as a small castle town of Edo in 1457, then the center of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603-1868, the rapidly modernizing and Westernizing capital of the nation during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), and the capital of a prosperous nation and growing empire thereafter. Tokyo was utterly devastated during World War II, but this was not the f |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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| SUBJECT |
Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- Dictionaries
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Tokyo (Japan) -- Dictionaries
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| Subject |
Japan -- Tokyo
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780810874893 |
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081087489X |
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