| ▲ | qingcharles 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
The name of the city is 東京 -- anything in Latin characters is a rough transliteration. Tokio was the common spelling in European texts until some time last century, and is still used regularly in continental Europe. see also, e.g. Tokio Hotel | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Dilettante_ 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
A reference to Tokio Hotel was not on my HN bingo card | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | labster 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Tokio is a different (masculine) name in Japanese, pronounced quite differently. /tokʲio/ vs. /to̞ːkʲo̞ː/. | |||||||||||||||||
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