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The history of Tokyo, Japan's capital prefecture and largest city, starts with archeological remains in the area dating back around 5,000 years. Tokyo's oldest temple is possibly Sensō-ji in Asakusa, founded in 628. The city's original name, Edo, first appears in the 12th century.
Tokyo was originally known as Edo (), a kanji compound of 江 (e, "cove, inlet") and 戸 (to, "entrance, gate, door"). [25] The name, which can be translated as "estuary", is a reference to the original settlement's location at the meeting of the Sumida River and Tokyo Bay.
Place names in Okinawa Prefecture are drawn from the traditional Ryukyuan languages. Many place names use the unique languages names, while other place names have both a method of reading the name in Japanese and a way to read the name in the traditional local language. The capital city Naha is Naafa in the Okinawan language.
Families who lost members in the bombings can submit applications to the government of Tokyo to have names of victims added to the list. [40] After the war, Japanese author Katsumoto Saotome, a survivor of the 10 March 1945 firebombing, helped start a library about the raid in Koto Ward called the Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage. The ...
1868 - Edo renamed "Tokyo." [4] 1869 Japanese imperial capital relocated to Tokyo from Kyoto. [6] Tokyo Shôkonsha (shrine) established. [6] Yokohama-Tokyo telegraph begins operating. [7] 1871 - Esaki Reiji photo studio in business. [8] 1872 Yushima Seido Exposition is held; October: Yokohama-Tokyo railroad begins operating. [9]
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi died of mild stroke at the hospital in Tokyo at the age of 62. 2001: 26 April: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori resigned and Junichiro Koizumi become 91st Prime Minister of Japan. 29 July: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won the House of Councillors election. 2002: 31 May-30 June
Hiroshi Ōshima: Japanese Ambassador to Germany, also right-wing follower and military attaché working for alliance between Japan and Nazi Germany (Anti-Comintern Pact, 1937; Tripartite Alliance, 1940) Renzo Sawada: Japanese Ambassador in France for some time; Naotake Satō: wartime Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union