Tokyo Prefecture

former prefecture in Japan 1869 - 1943
This article is about Tokyo Prefecture. For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation).

Tokyo Prefecture (東京府, Tōkyō-fu or Tōkei-fu) is a former Japanese government entity starting in 1869 and ending in 1943[1]

In 1943, the prefecture's municipalities, including the traditional city of Tokyo, became part of the newly formed Tokyo metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to) or "greater Tokyo metropolian area".[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Tokyo Metropolitan Government, {.htm |date=2013-11-27 }} 東京都年表 (in Japanese) Archived 2002-10-15 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-8-25.

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