Lecture Tokyo between Edo and Meiji
Saturday, May 29th, 2021 (start: 11:00 a.m. German time/18pm Tokyo time)
Lecture Tokyo between Edo and Meiji
Speaker: Dr. Heide Imai (Senshu University, Faculty of Intercultural Communication)
More than a million people lived in Edo as early as the 18th century and the city soon became the political and cultural center of the country alongside Kyoto. In 1869 the city became an imperial residence and since then has been called Tokyo, “Eastern Capital”. Today more than 9 million people live in Tokyo and around 36 million people in the entire metropolitan area. And the city continues to grow, or so it seems. In this lecture we want to find out how the city of Edo has grown into one of the largest cities in the world and has been known since 1869 for its numerous facets and equally diverse history, situated in the tension between tradition and modernity.
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