Timon Screech

Tokyo today is one of the world's mega-cities, and the centre of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture, but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called 'Edo', was the locus of Japanese trade, economics, and urban civilisation until 1868, when it mutated into Tokyo and became Japan's modern...