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The Tokyo metropolitan area, which includes Tokyo and nearby prefectures, is the world's most-populous metropolitan area, with 40.8 million residents , and is the second-largest metropolitan economy in the world after New York, with a 2022 gross metropolitan product estimated at US$2.08 trillion (US$51,124 per capita).

Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central 23 special wards (which formerly made up Tokyo City), various commuter towns and suburbs in its western area, and two outlying island chains known as the Tokyo Islands. Despite most of the world knowing Tokyo as a city, since 1943 its governing structure has been more akin to a prefecture, with an accompanying Governor and Assembly taking precedence over the smaller municipal governments which make up the metropolis.

Prior to the 17th century, Tokyo was predominantly a fishing village and was named Edo. In 1603, however, the city ascended to political prominence after being named the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo emerged as one of the world's most-populous cities with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, and the city was renamed Tokyo (lit. 'Eastern Capital'). In 1923, Tokyo was damaged substantially by the Great Kantō earthquake, and the city was later badly damaged by allied bombing raids during World War II in retaliation for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Beginning in the mid-20th century, Tokyo underwent rapid reconstruction and expansion that contributed to the era's so-called Japanese economic miracle in which Japan's economy propelled to the second-largest in the world behind that of the United States. Tokyo is also part of an industrial region that spans from Yokohama and Kawasaki to Chiba. , the city is home to 29 of the world's largest 500 companies listed in the annual Fortune Global 500. (Full article...)

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Image 1Marunouchi (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 2A kawaraban (news broadsheet) depicting the damage of the 1855 earthquake (from History of Tokyo)
Image 3A scene from the Tokugawa Seiseiroku, showing an aspect of the sankin kotai system: the festive attendance day of daimyo at Edo Castle (from History of Tokyo)
Image 4A social hierarchy chart based on old academic theories. Such hierarchical diagrams were removed from Japanese textbooks after various studies in the 1990s revealed that peasants, craftsmen, and merchants were in fact equal and merely social categories. Successive shoguns held the highest or near-highest court ranks, higher than most court nobles. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 5Toei bus (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 6Map of operators in Greater Tokyo Area (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 7Folding screen view of Edo in the 17th century, showing Edo Castle on the upper right corner (from History of Tokyo)
Image 8Taira no Masakado, who challenged the Emperor by becoming the effective ruler of Kanto (from History of Tokyo)
Image 9Tokyo's 23 special wards, one part of the Tokyo Metropolis prefecture (from History of Tokyo)
Image 10The five-story pagoda of Kan'ei-ji, which was constructed during the reign of Tokugawa Hidetada and required the building of the Kimon (Devil's Gate) (from History of Tokyo)
Image 11Hokusai's painting of the 47 ronin storming Kira Yoshinaka's mansion (from History of Tokyo)
Image 12Tokyo Imperial University's law building before 1902 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 13Yukio Mishima giving a speech during his 1970 coup attempt at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force building (from History of Tokyo)
Image 14A leaflet dropped by the U.S. over Tokyo during the bombings, urging civilians to leave the city (from History of Tokyo)
Image 15Tokyo Haneda Airport (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 16Shinjuku (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 17Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet during his second visit to Tokyo in 1854 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 18Koreans in Japan about to be stabbed by Japanese vigilantes with bamboo spears immediately after the earthquake (from History of Tokyo)
Image 19Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara in 2003 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 20Tokyo-Wan Ferry Shirahama-maru (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 21Ōta Dokan, who built the start to Edo Castle (from History of Tokyo)
Image 22JR Yamanote Line (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 23A view of the IMTFE in session (from History of Tokyo)
Image 24An 1869 picture scroll of the 1772 Great Meiwa Fire (from History of Tokyo)
Image 25An 1814 handscroll depicting the Great Fire of Meireki (from History of Tokyo)
Image 26Ginza (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 27Otoya Yamaguchi preparing to stab Inejiro Asanuma a second time (from History of Tokyo)
Image 28Emperor Meiji, moving from Kyoto to Tokyo after the fall of Edo in 1868 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 29Soil liquefaction in Kōtō after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake (from History of Tokyo)
Image 30A section of the Tamagawa Josui in an 1856 painting by Hiroshige (from History of Tokyo)
Image 31The Ginza Line, Asia's oldest subway line, first opened in 1927 (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 32Tokugawa Ieyasu, who made Edo the capital of Japan (from History of Tokyo)
Image 33Picture of the Upper Class, a c. 1794–1795 painting by Utamaro. The woman on the left is lower in class than the woman on the right, who wears more colorful clothes (from History of Tokyo)
Image 34Asakusa (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 35The Kabukicho district of Shinjuku in 1982, before police cracked down on its illegal activities (from History of Tokyo)
Image 36Tokyo from the air after the firebombing of the city, 1945 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 37The Metropolitan Police Department burning at Marunouchi, near Hibiya Park during the 1923 earthquake (from History of Tokyo)
Image 38A jar from the Yayoi period (300 BC to 300 AD) found in Kugahara, Ōta (from History of Tokyo)
Image 39Rokumeikan, a hotel mixing Japanese and European styles (from History of Tokyo)
Image 40Japan Defense Force chemical troops responding to the scene of the 1995 subway sarin attack, at mid-day (from History of Tokyo)
Image 41A painting of the new Tokyo Imperial Palace (from History of Tokyo)
Image 42Shibuya (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 43Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower viewed from Odaiba (from Special wards of Tokyo)
Image 44The Nikkei 225 stock market index from 1970 to 2024 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 45Tokyo streets at night (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 46This 1858 map shows the yamanote western district (at top) and the shitamachi eastern district (at bottom). Nihonbashi is at center (from History of Tokyo)
Image 47The 1964 Summer Olympics closing ceremony (from History of Tokyo)
Image 48The Shintomi-za theater, as painted by Utagawa Hiroshige III in 1881 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 49Nihonbashi Bridge, in a c. 1838–1842 painting by Hiroshige (from History of Tokyo)
Image 50The Tokyo Skytree in 2014 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 51A scene of the 2020 Summer Olympics' opening ceremony, where 1,824 drones formed the Games' logo. (from History of Tokyo)
Image 52Hirohito (by then renamed Showa)'s funeral procession on 24 February 1989 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 53A Torii Kiyomasu painting of kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro I playing Soga Tokimune. This was likely one of the most popular ukiyo-e actor prints (from History of Tokyo)
Image 54A Tokyo taxi driver indicating a fare of 50 Sen by holding up five fingers, in 1932 (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 551960 protests against the United States-Japan Security Treaty (from History of Tokyo)
Image 56This marker in Nihonbashi is the place from which distances along highways are reckoned. (from Transport in Greater Tokyo)
Image 57A German map of Tokyo from 1896 (from History of Tokyo)
Image 58An 1809 etched print of the Senso-ji temple, before it was firebombed during World War II and rebuilt (from History of Tokyo)

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... that Ralph Page once called a contra dance for more than 4000 people in Tokyo, despite not knowing Japanese?
... that the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Tokyo Marathon featured just two competitors?
... that with his self-produced solo ice show Gift, two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu is expected to become the first ice skater to perform at the Tokyo Dome?
... that Franček Gorazd Tiršek, a para-shooter from Slovenia, won three silver medals at the Summer Paralympic Games, the most recent one in Tokyo?
... that street racing was once prevalent along the Tokyo area's Bayshore Route?
... that Franc Pinter, a para-shooter from Slovenia, competes at his eighth Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo?

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Okutama Hinohara Ōme Hinode Akiruno Hachiōji Hamura Mizuho Fussa Akishima	Hino Tama Machida Musashimurayama Tachikawa Kunitachi Fuchū Inagi Higashiyamato Kodaira	Kokubunji Koganei Chōfu Higashimurayama Kiyose Higashikurume Nishitōkyō Musashino Mitaka Komae		Nerima Suginami Setagaya Nakano Itabashi Toshima Shinjuku Shibuya Meguro Shinagawa	Ōta Kita Bunkyō Chiyoda Minato Chūō Adachi Arakawa Taitō Kōtō	Sumida Katsushika Edogawa

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