Tokugawa

History of Tokyo

“Behind all the bizarre yet innovative pop culture was a sophisticated era that became the key in Tokyo’s development.

It was all thanks to Tokugawa Ieyasu that the Tokyo, then known as the City of Edo, flourished into what we see these days. Ieyasu extablished the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603 and became the very first shogun.

The City of Edo became the center of politics and culture and further developed. Through this time, the Emperor resided in Kyoto, the formal capital of Japan. After 260 years during the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the Tokugawa Shogunate ended along with the ruling power was given back to the Emperor. The Emperor decided to move to Edo and renamed it Tokyo.

Throughout the Taisho Era in 1912, Tokyo began to develop as the population improve; the quality of education rose and citizens led a consumer lifestyle. The arts including theater and opera also flourished.

In 1941, the Pacific War broke out and it greatly affected Tokyo. The city’s establishments have been utilized for war and defense. Thus, businesses, education and basically the peaceful living were halted and destroyed by chaos.

The war ended in 1945, even so the population was cut down in half. In these years, Tokyo strived to recover from the wounds on the war.

Through the 1950s, Tokyo raced a rapid economic growth because with the Korean War. Technological advancements have been also made in these years such as the mass production of television and refrigerators. In 1964, the famous Bullet Train began its operations along with the Metropolitan Expressway was opened. And also the development with the city did not stop there.

In 1980, Tokyo experienced a phenomenon called the bubble economy where Tokyo became one on the most active major cities and excels in cutting edge technology, culture, fashion and such. Nonetheless, the bubble burst within the 1990s because on the sinking tax revenues that endangered the city’s finances.

However, they managed to surpass this economic problem and now aim for a greater Tokyo.”

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