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Tokyo

or մ·쾱·

[ toh-kee-oh; Japanese taw-kyaw ]

noun

  1. a seaport in and the capital of Japan, on Tokyo Bay: one of the world's largest cities; destructive earthquake and fire 1923; signing of the Japanese surrender document aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, September 2, 1945.


Tokyo

/ ˈtəʊkjəʊ; -kɪˌəʊ /

noun

  1. the capital of Japan, a port on SE Honshu on Tokyo Bay (an inlet of the Pacific): part of the largest conurbation in the world (the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area) of over 35 million people; major industrial centre and the chief cultural centre of Japan. Pop (city proper): 8 025 538 (2002 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Tokyo

  1. Capital of Japan and largest city in the country, located on the island of Honshu at the head of Tokyo Bay; the administrative, financial, educational, and cultural center of Japan.
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Notes

The world's largest city, Tokyo is also among its most modern.
It was heavily damaged by Allied bombing during World War II .
Tokyo became the capital of the Japanese Empire in 1868 when Japan began a period of intensive modernization.
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Other yvlog Forms

  • մk··ٱ noun
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He believes this year's World Championships in Tokyo will provide his crowning moment.

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But he has more than one eye already on September's World Championships in Tokyo.

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It marked Hernández’s first game since the Tokyo Series because of a stomach illness that sidelined him for the team’s sweep of the Tigers last weekend.

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He didn’t make it out of the second inning of a 7-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Dodger Stadium, his control problems even more pronounced than they were in his debut in Tokyo.

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The company has now taken the more drastic measure of closure after the insect - widely reported to have been part or all of a cockroach - was found on Friday by a customer in Tokyo.

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