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Tokio may refer to: * , the capital of Japan, used primarily in non-English-speaking countries may also refer to: Music * Tokio (band), a Japanese pop/rock band ** ''Tokio'' (album), their debut album * Tokio Hotel, a German rock band * Tokio, a Japanese singer Kenji Sawada's album and song Places * Tokio, North Dakota, a community in the United States * Tokio, Texas, a community in the United States * Tokio, Washington, a ghost town Companies and other organizations * Tokio Marine Nichido, a Japanese insurance company * Tokio Millennium Re Ltd., a reinsurance company Other uses * Tokio (given name), a masculine Japanese given name * 498 Tokio, a minor planet * '' Toki'', a 1986 video game originally released as ''Scramble Formation'' * '' City of Tokio'', an iron steamship built in 1874 in the USA * ''Tokio'' (yacht) * ''Tokio Express'', a container ship that caused the great Lego spill of 1997 * Tokio (software), asynchronous input/output software library for ...
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Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ...
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Tokio Millennium Re Ltd
Tokio Millennium Re Ltd. (abbreviated as TMR) is a reinsurance company headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda with branches in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, Zurich, Switzerland and Sydney, Australia. The lines of business written include property catastrophe, workers compensation and terrorism. TMR was established in Bermuda in 2000 as a subsidiary of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. and is licensed as a class 3B insurance company in Bermuda. TMR is currently rated AA- (Very Strong) by Standard & Poor's and A++ (Superior) by A. M. Best. Company history First announcements about the establishment of TMR with an initial capital of US$125 million in Bermuda were made in 2000. TMR was expected to start its operation beginning of April 2000 with Shin-ichiro Okada named as CEO. The parent company initially announced that TMR's primary mission was not to earn a profit through assumed reinsurance but to use reinsurance as a tool to make effective use of its capital. Ef ...
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Tokio Express
''Tokio Express'' was a container ship, built and registered in Hamburg in 1973 for Hapag-Lloyd. In 1984 she was renamed ''Scandutch Edo'' before being acquired by Pol Gulf International in 1993 and restored to her original name. In 1997, she was acquired by Westwind International and in 1999, by Falani, before being broken up for scrap in 2000. ''Tokio Express'' is best known for being hit by a rogue wave on 13 February 1997 that caused her to lose cargo, including one cargo container loaded with 4.8 million pieces of Lego. Ever since, Lego pieces including octopuses, dragons, flippers and flowers have been washing up on Cornwall beaches and are commonly found after storms. The ship ''Tokio Express'' was one of four ''Trio'' class container ships built for Hapag-Lloyd by Blohm + Voss in the early 1970s. These were all 3,000- TEU class ships. The first of these was ''Hamburg Express'', which was followed by ''Bremen Express'', ''Tokio Express'' and finally ''Hongkong Express''. ...
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Tokio (yacht)
''Tokio'' is a Volvo Ocean 60 The Whitbread 60 (W60), later known as the Volvo Ocean 60 (VO60), was a class of ocean racing yacht built to a " box rule" specifying key design parameters of the 10 smaller yachts which took part the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race. ... yacht. She finished fifth in the W60 class of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Chris Dickson. References Volvo Ocean Race yachts Sailing yachts of Japan Volvo Ocean 60 yachts 1990s sailing yachts Sailboat type designs by Bruce Farr {{ship-stub ...
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City Of Tokio
SS ''City of Tokio'' (sometimes spelled ''City of Tokyo'') was an iron steamship built in 1874 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. ''City of Tokio'' and her sister ship '' City of Peking'' were at the time of construction the largest vessels ever built in the United States, and the second largest in the world behind the British leviathan . Like ''Great Eastern'', construction of the two Pacific Mail ships was to be plagued with financial difficulties, which threatened to bankrupt the shipbuilder. Unlike ''Great Eastern'', however, which was a commercial failure, ''City of Tokio'' was to enjoy a successful commercial career until being wrecked at the entrance of Tokyo Bay in 1885. ''City of Tokio'' holds the distinction of being the first ship to bring members of the ''Issei'', or first-generation Japanese migrants, to the United States. Construction ''City of Tokio'' and ''City of Peking'' were ordered by the Pacific ...
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Scramble Formation
is a vertically scrolling shooter released in by Taito in Japanese arcades in 1986. It was published by Romstar in North America as ''Tokio''. Gameplay In the game, the player controls a red propeller-driven airplane, flying over the city of Tokyo. They are able to shoot and capture other red, smaller planes, which then will follow the player in formation. The player can choose between 3 formations: the first is able to shoot both air-to-air and air-to-ground projectiles, the second only air-to-air (but on a larger area), the third only air-to-ground (but on a larger area as well). During gameplay, the player should react accordingly to the threats and quickly decide which one of the 3 formation types is more adequate at one given moment. The game is divided in areas, depicting key places in Tokyo, such as Shinjuku, Akasaka, and Ginza. There are no clearly defined "levels", but at some points the player is faced by a giant mothership, which can be shot down by hitting its engin ...
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498 Tokio
Tokio (minor planet designation: 498 Tokio) (1902 KU) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 2 December 1902 by Auguste Charlois at the Nice Observatory. Attribution to Astronomer Shin Hirayama of the Azabu Observatory, Tokyo, Japan for the 1900 discovery and naming of Tokio as cited in the 1947 Monthly Newsletter of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol 107, page 45. References Attribution to Astronomer Shin Hirayama was the first Japanese astronomer to discover an asteroid. In 1900 he discovered 498 Tokio and 727 Nipponia. The crater Hirayama on the Moon is jointly named after him and Kiyotsugu Hirayama was a Japanese astronomer, best known for his ... of the Azabu Observatory, Tokyo, Japan for the 1900 discovery and naming of Tokio as cited in the 1947 Monthly Newsletter of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol 107, page 45. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/MNRAS/0107//0000045.000.html External links * * Background asteroids Tokio Tokio Tokio ...
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Tokio (given Name)
Tokio is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Tokio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: *時雄, "hour, masculine" *時男, "hour, man" *時夫, "hour, husband" *刻雄, "engrave, masculine" *刻男, "engrave, man" *刻夫, "engrave, husband" *晨雄, "morning, masculine" *期雄, "period, masculine" *登喜夫, "climb up, rejoice, husband" *登紀夫, "climb up, chronicle, husband" The name can also be written in hiragana ときお or katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ... トキオ. Notable people with the name *, Japanese hurdler *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese physicist *, Japanese table tennis player {{g ...
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Tokio Marine Nichido
, commonly called Tokio Marine Nichido, is a property insurance, property/casualty insurance subsidiary of Tokio Marine Holdings, the largest non-mutual private insurance group in Japan. Tokio Marine Holdings was formerly known as Millea Group, which underwent a name change in July 2008. Its headquarters are in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo.Corporate Profile
" Tokio Marine Nichido. Retrieved on July 24, 2011. "Address of Head Office 2-1 Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo" The company is one of the very few groups and individuals that still use the spelling Tokio for the city in the English language.


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The Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance

The antecedent Tokyo Marine insurance is the first insurance company (as the marine insurance company) in Japan, and also the top ...
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Tokio (band)
Tokio is a Japanese rock/ pop band formed by Johnny & Associates that debuted in 1994. It is made up of three men who were signed with Sony Music Entertainment from 1994 to 2001, with Universal Music Japan from 2001 to 2008, and are now signed under J Storm, a label owned by Johnny & Associates. In addition to their activities as a band, the members of Tokio also act in dozens of dramas and host variety programmes, both as a group and individually. The group's name "Tokio" was the old English romanization for Japan's capital Tokyo, and remains the current transliteration in several European languages. Unlike most other bands under Johnny & Associates, where all of the band members are usually only vocalists, Tokio only has one main vocalist, a drummer, a guitarist, a bassist, and a keyboardist. Bassist Tatsuya Yamaguchi was kicked out of the band in May 2018 following a sexual harassment scandal involving a high-school-aged girl. Subsequently, less choreography is used in concerts ...
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Tokio, Washington
Tokio is a rural location and former rural community in Adams County, in the Palouse region of eastern Washington. It is located along Interstate 90 northeast of Ritzville.Japanese Vignettes
p. 16 (1939) ("There is a Tokio in the northeastern corner of Adams County in eastern Washington")


History

In 1888, railway officials named the railroad stop at this location "Iona." It was changed to Tracy in 1905, and then Tokio in 1906.
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Tokio, Texas
----Tokio is an unincorporated community in Terry County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 24 in 2000. The town was named after the capital city of Japan with the same name. The town of Tokio was founded in 1908, and relocated a mile south to the current location in 1928 when US highway 380 was redirected. Although reaching a population of at least 125 residents in the 1940s, Tokio is now largely abandoned. A historical marker stands in front of the old Tokio School.- Another Texas community named Tokio (also called Wiggins) is located in McLennan County, near West, Texas West is a city in McLennan County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 2,531. It is named after Thomas West, the first postmaster of the city. The city is located in the north-central part of Texas, approximate .... References External links * Unincorporated communities in Terry County, Texas ...
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