The idea of removing one level of government and raising Tokyo City administration to the level of other prefectures was not new. It had talked about since the 19th century -- for example, see draft of Tokyo law which was not passed in 1895Archived 2013-02-16 at the Wayback Machine.
The idea of removing one level of government and raising Tokyo City administration to the level of other prefectures was not new. It had talked about since the 19th century -- for example, see draft of Tokyo law which was not passed in 1895Archived 2013-02-16 at the Wayback Machine.