The Japanese call their flag " Hi-no-maru" which means " The sun disc". They call their country the " Land of the rising sun" and believe their Emperor is a descendant of the Sun Goddess. The design was originally used by the Shoguns of Tokugawna.
The capital city of Japan is Tokyo. In 1990, the diet (Japans parliament) passed a resolution to investigate moving Japan's capital city out of Tokyo. Within a few weeks, a committee will present their choice for the location of a brand-new capital city to the primeminister
The idea for moving the capital in Japan was firdt proposed and discussed when Tokyo hosted the 1964 Olympic games. Now, the diet wants to move the capital out of Tokyo to allevaite the "excessive concentration" of political and economical functionds in the world's largest megalopolis of 33 million people. In addition, the possible breakdown of government functions in the event of a major earthquake striking Tokyo further led the Diet to legislate the move.
In 1868, with the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese imperial capital moved from Kyoto to the town of Edo (Which had served as a quasi-capital since 1603.) and Edo was renamed Tokyo. Tokyo is the worlds most populous urban area and houses 26% of the country's population. In a recent study, Japanese researchers found that the cost of housing in Tokyo is over four times the cost of similar housing in Paris and well over three times the cost of similer housing in New York City.
Tokyo's civic and prefecture government officials are totally opposed to a relocation of the national capital and feel that power should continue to be centralized in Tokyo.