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Tokyo


Capital of Japan and largest city in the country, located on the island of Honshu at the head of Tokyo Bay; the administrative, financial, educational, and cultural center of Japan.	1
‡ The world’s largest city, Tokyo is also among its most modern.	2
‡ It was heavily damaged by Allied bombing during World War II.	3
‡ Tokyo became the capital of the Japanese Empire in 1868 when Japan began a period of intensive modernization.	4

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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