Tokyo

proper nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈtəʊ.ki.əʊ//
United States//ˈtoʊ.ki.oʊ//
United States//ˈtoʊk.joʊ//

A prefecture and capital city of Japan.

proper noun

1
A prefecture and capital city of Japan.
The first phase of the project, connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, is scheduled to be completed in 2027 and is expected to cut traveling time between those cities by half.
2
The Japanese government.
Tokyo required certain military technologies and some raw materials that its main European ally already possessed, and also needed new markets for its Southeast Asian products in order to keep the local economies alive.
Meanwhile, Japan must bolster its own defenses and substantially increase defense spending to meet new threats. Tokyo should swallow some of its suspicions and move more quickly to rebuild frayed ties with South Korea. It should make cooperation with the United States a cornerstone of its engagement throughout the Indo-Pacific and with NATO. It is a full agenda and there is no time to lose.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 東(とう)京(きょう) (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjaeng, “capital”).

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Tokyo · A prefecture and capital city of Japan.

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