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podcasts. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 258, The City That Never Sleeves, Part 1.

This week, I want to continue our experiment on this podcast in regional history with a look at what was,

originally, a podunk nothing of a fishing town, and which became, eventually, the greatest

metropolis in the nation, and arguably one of the greatest metropolis in the nation and arguably

one of the greatest in the world. I refer, of course, to the history of the city of Tokyo.

But that name, Tokyo, is a relatively recent invention, as is Tokyo's rise to prominence.

For much of recorded Japanese history, really its first thousand

years or so, Tokyo was a city of relative unimportance. The small fishing villages nestled on

the shore of what's now called Tokyo Bay in what was at the time called Musashi province,

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