Tokyoite
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a word derived from
Tokyo.
Tokyonouna seaport in and the capital of Japan, on Tokyo Bay: one of the world's largest cities; destructive earthquake and fire 1923; signing of the Japanese surrender document aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, September 2, 1945.
Example Sentences
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Unlike Sudoku, popularized as a Japanese puzzle craze though invented in the 1970s by an architect from Indiana, KenKen really was created by an Asian fellow, a Tokyoite math teacher named Tetsuya Miyamoto.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2009
Notes Tokyoite Ben Tsuchiya, who assisted at his brother's recent wedding: "If it is beautifully done, the wedding makes the parents look good, and can even help in business because it impresses people."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Once you see it with your own watering eyes, at Shinjuku Station's west exit, you'll fall into complete agreement with what every Tokyoite already knows: this is the electronic jackpot of Asia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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