Tokyo

Tokyo is the capital and largest city of Japan. The city began as a fishing village called Edo, which became the site of a castle in the fifteenth century. In 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, made Edo the center of his power, and under him and his successors Edo became the de facto capital of Japan, although the emperors remained at their traditional capital in Kyoto. By the mid-nineteenth century, Edo was one of the largest cities in the world, with a population of over a million.

With the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the adoption of a democratic form of government in the late nineteenth century, the imperial family relocated from Kyoto to Edo, which was renamed Tokyo, the Eastern Capital. Under the Meiji Emperor and his successors, Tokyo became a center of finance and industrialization. When Mexican President Alvin Silva entered the Global War with a surprise attack on Japan on 1 January 1942, he ordered a wave of carrier-based warmobiles of the Mexican Pacific Fleet to bomb Tokyo. The city suffered repeated warmobile raids for the next three years, until the Mexicans were driven away from the Japanese home islands and Japanese military forces liberated the Marianas Islands. Since the effective end of the Global War in 1949, Tokyo has been rebuilt and is now a major world metropolis.