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1457 Edo Castle was built by Ota Dokan in what is now Tokyo.
1857 Earthquake
in Tokyo, Japan
kills over 100,000.
1912 Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C.
to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
1923 Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama
, killing an estimated 142,807 people
1927 first Japanese subway
line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.
1933 The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan
.
1946 Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo – accused include Hideki Tojo
, Shigenori Togo and Hiroshi Oshima.
1948 In Tokyo, an international war crime
s tribunal sentences seven Japan
ese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo
, for their roles in World War II
.
1964 The 1964 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo.
1964 The 1964 Summer Olympics close in Tokyo.
1965 Tokyo becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from New York City
.
1966 A Japanese passenger jet crashes into Tokyo Bay - 133 dead.
1968 Japan's
biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
1995 Terrorist incident: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo
religious cult release sarin gas on five separate railway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
1995 Hundreds in Hiroshima
, Nagasaki
, Washington
, and Tokyo mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb.
1997 The main office of Fuji TV moves from Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
to Odaiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
1999 ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.
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