History of Tokyo

Interactive reading is a special technique of memorizing information based on interval repetition.
Dates of important events are missing in the text, and you will need to add them.
If you specify a right date - you move forward, and if you're wrong - start over.
This is a very effective way of learning of new material (as opposed to usual reading).
In such a manner you'll actually remember what you read!

The History of Tokyo shows the growth of Japan's largest urban center. The eastern part of Tokyo occupies land in the Kantō region that together with the modern-day Saitama Prefecture, the city of Kawasaki and the eastern part of Yokohama make up Musashi; one of the provinces under the ritsuryō system. The 23 special wards, consisting of the districts of Toshima, Ebara, Adachi and Katsushika, form the central part of Tokyo. Western Tokyo occupies the Tama district. Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple is Sensō-ji in Asakusa....