Historical dictionary of Tokyo /
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 1...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Scarecrow Press,
2011
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| Series: | Historical dictionaries of cities, states, and regions.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780810874893 081087489X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
