Historical dictionary of Tokyo /

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Author / Creator:	Cybriwsky, Roman A.
Imprint:	Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Historical dictionaries of cities, states, and regions Historical dictionaries of cities, states, and regions.
Subject:	Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- Dictionaries. Tokyo (Japan) -- Dictionaries. Japan -- Tokyo. Dictionaries. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403579

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ISBN:	9780810874893 081087489X 9780810872387 0810872382
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Cybriwsky, Roman A. Historical dictionary of Tokyo. Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2011 9780810872387

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