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labster 5 days ago

Tokio is a different (masculine) name in Japanese, pronounced quite differently. /tokʲio/ vs. /to̞ːkʲo̞ː/.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_(given_name)

j16sdiz 5 days ago | parent [-]

We are talking about the spelling centuries ago, when the romanisation were less standardised