How the Great Fire of 1657 shaped modern Tokyo Mar. 5 06:24 am JST Mar. 5 | 06:24 am JST TOKYO
Take a stroll around modern Tokyo and the city appears to be the epitome of orderly peace and calm. It’s hard to believe that it was destroyed not once but twice in the course of the 20th century, first by earthquake and fire in 1923, and then by American bombs in 1945.
Those are not the only times Tokyo has met with calamity. In the days when the city was known as Edo, it was a city of wood and thatch. Fire was a perennial hazard and Edo was razed to the ground on many occasions, only to rise again from the ashes like a phoenix.
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