In feudal times, the current prefecture of Tokyo is part of the province of Musashi, to be exact. After the defeat of persons who led Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1590, he, the nine provinces of the Kanto region to select the little village of Edo, which was centered around a castle built in 1457 to serve as the capital of the field.
He was Shogun Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and became the de facto political center of Japan, opening, what historians call the Edo period. Even if Kyoto is still officially the capital, as the residence of the Emperor. All women and their son lived in Edo. The city quickly became a large population density, despite a major fire in 1657 which destroyed much of the city and killed almost 100,000 people.
In July 1868, after the Meiji revolution, Edo Mutsuhito Emperor chose a new residence within the city, which today in Tokyo, the capital of the East. In 1871 the Tokyo Metropolitan Group was formed, and the city that was previously divided into 15 districts, has become a metropolis.
In 1943, the city of Tokyo merged and became the Tokyo metropolitan prefecture (Tokyo-to create). The city of Tokyo is over, its districts, reorganized into 23 districts existing special and distinct communities.
The prefecture was investigated painful in the first half of the twentieth century, first in the Kanto earthquake of 1923 (142 dead and 807 missing), and it has a number of bomb attacks during the Second World War, survived (more than 100,000 dead). Much was destroyed in the city during the two disasters that require a major renovation, why, says while retaining a number of historical monuments, most of the city has developed a very modern architecture.
The 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, which resulted in the construction of numerous infrastructure (including roads and transport). Then the city a phenomenal growth during the economic boom of the 1960s in Japan (10% of the average economic growth per year), experienced in 1970 (an increase of 5%) and 1980 (4%), the town area, the largest in the world in terms of population, now far beyond the borders of the prefecture and the full adoption of the neighboring prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba in part one.
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