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Tokyo Tokyo is the capital of Japan with one of the most greatest population in the world. Tokyo today is considered a megacity. However, Tokyo didn't start out as such a massive city. Back in 1639, Tokyo was known as the city of Edo. The city of Edo was a humble fishing village,which grew into a city with a population with more than a million people by the mid eighteenth century. Edo was one of the largest cities in the world at that time. As Edo grew and grew, it became the capital of Japan and later was renamed to Tokyo. The reason of Tokyo becoming the capital of Japan are due to a combination of political, economical, and cultural factors. Japan’s has a unique geography from its banana-shaped arc of islands. Japan has over 6,852 islands …show more content…

In 1639, Shoguns closed Japan off from outside influence for about 200 years. During this period, the center of government was the city of Edo which is known today as Tokyo. During the Edo period Japan was going through many changes. The population increase began with the rise of industry. Edo(Tokyo) grew from a small fishing village to a city of more than a million people by the mid eighteenth century. It was also one of the largest city in the world at this time. In 1853, when isolation ended, Japan was forced to accept foreign trade and influence. As a result in 1868, Mutsuhito established a new government and started to modernize Japan. The modernization period was called the Meiji Restoration, which was the end of the shoguns. Japan improved its industry and military in an efforts to try to expand their territories. However, which Japan was stopped by the United States from their attempts to expand and Japan retaliated with a surprise attack on the U.S Navy’s Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States then entered World War II and dropped atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Among the other cities Tokyo was also affected by the bombings. After Japan surrendered to the U.S. it was occupied by them until 1952. A new constitution was established based on the democracy of the United States. Japan became a great, peaceful industrial nation by the late 1900s and as we know it …show more content…

Tokyo started from a small fishing village to one of the greatest and largest cities of the world today and throughout their history, the Japanese have respected nature. Japan is home to a variety of animals such as bears, wild boar, foxes, deer, antelope, hares, monkeys, and raccoon dogs. One of the animals that is an important figures in Japanese mythology and folktales is the Japanese macaque. Japanese macaques are large, shaggy-haired monkeys with pink faces and short furry tails. The national bird of Japan is Tancho or red-crowned crane and the national flower is a chrysanthemum. Another Japanese symbol is their very own flag that is a rectangle with a large red circle in the center, which represents the sun. Japan is known as the Land of the Rising Sun. Throughout ancient Japanese history Samurai carried the symbol of the Rising Sun in the twelfth century during the feud between the Taira and Minamoto clans. Another part of Japanese prideful culture is its very own anthem, the “Kimigayo.” The “Kimigayo” is one of the world’s oldest anthems that come from a tanka that was written in the tenth century. There are also many ancient traditions in Japan like: calligraphy, which is artistic writing; ikebana, flowering arranging; tea ceremonies, and haikus popular poetic form in Japan till today. Japanese religion would be Shintoism. Shintoism has shrines around the

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