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Using the "One Metropolis Three Prefectures" definition, Tokyo is 13,555.65 square kilometres (5,233.87 sq mi), a similar size to that of Los Angeles County, and almost two-thirds smaller than the combined statistical area of New York City, at 30,671 square kilometres (11,842 sq mi) and 21.9 million people.
Tokyo has enacted a measure to cut greenhouse gases. Governor Shintaro Ishihara created Japan's first emissions cap system, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emission by a total of 25% by 2020 from the 2000 level. [90] Tokyo is an example of an urban heat island, and the phenomenon is especially serious in its special wards.
The Exclusive Economic Zone stretches from the baseline out to 200 nautical miles (370 km) from its coast. Its territorial sea is 12 nmi (22.2 km; 13.8 mi), but between 3 and 12 nmi (5.6 and 22.2 km; 3.5 and 13.8 mi) in the international straits— La Pérouse (or Sōya Strait), Tsugaru Strait , Ōsumi, and Tsushima Strait .
The capital city, Tokyo, has a population of 13.9 million (2022). [244] It is part of the Greater Tokyo Area , the biggest metropolitan area in the world with 37.4 million people (2024). [ 245 ] Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society , [ 246 ] with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population. [ 247 ]
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting. [6] [7]
Kobayashi et al. (also known as Tokyo Ward Autonomy Case). [citation needed] In 1998, the National Diet passed a revision of the Local Autonomy Law (effective in the year 2000) that implemented the conclusions of the Final Report on the Tokyo Ward System Reform increasing their fiscal autonomy and established the wards as basic local public ...
Shibuya (渋谷 区, Shibuya-ku, IPA: ⓘ) is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan.A major commercial center, Shibuya houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shibuya Station and Shinjuku Station.
Chiyoda operates four public libraries; they are the Chiyoda Library, Yobancho Library, Shohei Library, and Kanda Library. Tokyo operates the Tokyo Metropolitan Library Hibiya Library. The Japanese government operates the National Diet Library and the National Archives. Ishikawa Enterprise Foundation Ochanomizu Library is a nearby private library.