Tokyo started as a small fishing in 3000 B.C. The original name of Tokyo was Edo because it was home to the Edo Castle (History). By 1590 a shogun, military leader, Tokugwa Ieyasu selected Edo to be his military base. Ieyasu was able to make Edo flourish enough to almost make it the capital, but Kyoto was still the official capital (Wikipedia). When Edo became the capital it’s named was changed to Tokyo meaning eastern capital. In the last half of the 1800s, Emperor Meiji started the Meiji revolution. In the Revolution, Meiji let down Japan’s borders. This let cities like Tokyo improve education and help arts and theater bloom (worldtravelguide). After World War 2 Japan lessened the use of military during international arguments. In the early
