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Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468Ā million residents as of 2018; the city proper has a population of 13.99Ā million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the KantÅ region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan.
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