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A guide to: Japan

→Tokyo City

●About Tokyo:

Tokyo is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, is the capital of the country, the center of Greater Tokyo Area and the largest metropolian area in the world. The city is also described as one of the three “command centers” for the world economy, along with New York City and London.

Tokyo is often thought of as a city but is commonly referred to as a “metropolitan prefecture”. The Tokyo metropolitan government administers the 23 Special Wards of Tokyo (each governed as an individual city), which cover the area that was formerly the City of Tokyo before it merged and became the subsequent metropolitan prefecture.

(read more about tokyo: wikipedia, japan-guide)

you can read about universities in tokyo here, here, here and here.

●Culture:

Many different festivals occur throughout Tokyo. Major events include the Sannō at Hie Shrine, the Sanja at Asakusa Shrine, and the biennial Kanda Festivals. The last features a parade with elaborately decorated floats and thousands of people. Annually on the last Saturday of July, an enormous fireworks display over the Sumida River attracts over a million viewers. Once cherry blossoms bloom in spring, many residents gather in Ueno Park, Inokashira Park, and the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden for picnics under the blossoms.

(read more about their culture: wikipedia, go japan go, facts about japan, japan-guide)

●Popular Culture:

As the largest population center in Japan and the location of the country’s largest broadcasters and studios, Tokyo is frequently the setting for many Japanese movies, television shows, animated series (anime), web comics, and comic books (manga). In the kaiju (monster movie) genre, landmarks of Tokyo are routinely destroyed by giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Some Hollywood directors have turned to Tokyo as a filming location for movies set in Tokyo. Well-known examples from the postwar era include Tokyo Joe, My Geisha, Tokyo Story and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice; well-known contemporary examples include Kill Bill, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Lost in Translation, Babel, and Inception.

(read more about their popular culture: wikipedia, virtual japan →you can read about j-pop, manga, shibuya, visual kei, harajuku etc. Very interesting.)

You can also read about sports in Japan: here, here and here.

●Architecture:

Architecture in Tokyo has largely been shaped by Tokyo’s history. Twice in recent history has the metropolis been left in ruins: first in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and later after extensive firebombing in World War II. Because of this, Tokyo’s urban landscape consists mainly of modern and contemporary architecture, and older buildings are scarce. Tokyo features many internationally famous forms of modern architecture including Tokyo International Forum, Asahi Beer Hall, Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building and Rainbow Bridge. Tokyo also features two distinctive towers: Tokyo Tower and the new Tokyo Skytree which is the tallest tower in Japan and the second tallest structure in the world.

(read more about their architecture: wikipedia, tofugu)

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Yoshiki about upcoming press confrence~
1st tweet:  I didn’t say it will be good news
2nd tweet: I didn’t say it’s bad news either (lol) 

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