The opposition Democratic Party of Japan won Tokyo's city wide election in a landslide,with 54 seats.

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The only cities in Europe that were comparable-- and they were smaller--were Naples, an extraordinarily poor city, and Constantinople, Istanbul, and, of course, in Japan, Edo, which would become known as Tokyo.

欧洲唯一可以与之匹敌的,就是稍小的那不勒斯,那是个非常穷的城市,另外还有君士坦丁堡即伊斯坦布尔,当然还有日本的江户,即之后的东京

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