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- proper noun obsolete
Tokyo , the capital ofJapan .
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Examples
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The Third Relay Space Station: Tokio is a new Japanese point-and-click game created by Bianco-Bianco, who is also created Dreamland and Ranch Escape.
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Under great effort and stress, the Japs had built some large 59,000-ton air-craft carriers in Tokio Harbour; these were well armed and superior in every respect.
The World Today 1948
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At that particular time the headquarters camp, located at Tonagawa was moved to a small piece of reclaimed land in Tokio Harbour and the former camp, Tonagawa, was then converted into a hospital for prisoners of war.
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When the United Nations parade in Tokio, Chinese units should be in the first place of honour.
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A liberal Japanese in Tokio two years ago talked to me like this; he said, You white people own most of the earth; you own the Pacific and most of the land around it; on a piece of land where in Japan we support 400 people you in the United States support twenty-three; and now you want control in Eastern Asia.
The Challenge of International Relations to North America 1925
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He spent his time in Tokio endeavouring to interpret English literature to those far-removed Eastern people.
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Its third 'and revised edition appeared in Tokio in 1913. or the vast family of the Japanese nation.
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There is a street car line in Tokio, a novelty in the East, and carriages of all descriptions.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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The people in Tokio are trying to ape the style of the Europeans.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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1869, Yedo became the capital of the Empire under the name Tokio; end of the resistance of the partisans of the shogun; 1871, abolition of the fiefs of the daimio and division of Japan into departments; 1872, law establishing conscription; first national exposition at Tokio;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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