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    1 year ago

    Tokyo? Hasn’t the Kanto region been part of Japan for over a millenium?

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        Tokyo became a city, and the seat of the shogunate, in 1603. (Before that it was a fishing village in Musashi Province.) It became the capital of Japan in 1868, and has stayed so ever since. It was never a city-state.