Akio Kamiko, Implementation of the City Law and the Town and Village Law (1881–1908)Archived 10 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Historical Development of Japanese Local GovernanceArchived 24 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine Vol. 2 (Note on translations: This work and others consistently use the translation "assembly" for the elected prefectural and municipal assemblies (today generally [shi/to/etc.]-gikai, but in the Empire sometimes only [shi/fu/etc.]-kai), and "council" for the partially or completely unelected prefectural, county and municipal sanjikai (参事会). But other works follow modern usage and translate the elected body of shikai (as it is still named in some major cities) as city "council", and use other translations such as "advisory council" for the sanjikai.)
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"東京都年表". Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012.
"東京のあゆみ"(PDF). Tokyo Metropolitan Government. p. 225. Archived from the original(PDF) on 29 October 2013.
Akio Kamiko, Implementation of the City Law and the Town and Village Law (1881–1908)Archived 10 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Historical Development of Japanese Local GovernanceArchived 24 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine Vol. 2 (Note on translations: This work and others consistently use the translation "assembly" for the elected prefectural and municipal assemblies (today generally [shi/to/etc.]-gikai, but in the Empire sometimes only [shi/fu/etc.]-kai), and "council" for the partially or completely unelected prefectural, county and municipal sanjikai (参事会). But other works follow modern usage and translate the elected body of shikai (as it is still named in some major cities) as city "council", and use other translations such as "advisory council" for the sanjikai.)
The 郡区町村編制法 [ja]gun-ku-chō-son hensei-hō, of 1878, the law on the organization of gun (counties/districts), ku (cities/districts/wards), towns and villages, one of the "three new laws" on local government of 1878 that also created prefectural taxation rights and prefectural assemblies (地方三新法, chihō san-shinpō, 地方三新法 [ja])
市制, shi-sei市制 [ja], the municipal code for cities of 1888. In the same year, the municipal code for towns on villages, the 町村制, chō-son-sei町村制 [ja], was created. The county governments were reorganized in 1890 by the 郡制 [ja] (gun-sei )
