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The claim for the size of Tōkyō [[http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/agglomerations.htm at about.com]] is based on estimates of "urban agglomerations." I think it'd be better to link to ''its'' sources ([[http://www.demographia.com/ Demographia]]), not a second-hand source like about.com. (The Demographia 50 Largest World Metropolitan '''Areas''' list is [[http://www.demographia.com/db-world-metro2000.htm here]].)
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Second, if we're going to use the about.com/Demographia source, then it'd be better to cite the '''greater Tōkyō area''' (which includes other adjoining prefectures), rather than implying that there are over 30 million people in Tōkyō. [[http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/PROFILE/overview03.htm The official Tōkyō web site]] places Tōkyō proper at 12 million. To further complicate matters, Tōkyō isn't even on Demographia's list of [[http://www.demographia.com/db-world-muni.htm World Municipalities over 7,000,000 Population]] because of the definition of ''municipality''.
 
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'''Please note:''' I am not disputing the greater Tōkyō area's status as the largest metropolitan agglomeration in the world. I'm merely saying that it would be nice to be a little more accurate than the current article's claim that Tōkyō's the largest '''city'''. We'd have to clarify what we mean by "city."
 
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== State Religion? Monarchy? Where? ==
 
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The article claims that there is a State religion (Shinto), but I cannot find any substantiation for this claim. Can anybody back up this claim?
 
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[http://web-japan.org/factsheet/pdf/CONSTITU.pdf The Japanese Constitution] provides for no state religion.
 
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Also, hammering on "constitutional monarchy" seems inappropriate. If you read the Japanese constitution, the Diet, not the Emperor, has supreme authority. This is borne out in the MOFA-sponsored [http://web-japan.org/factsheet/pdf/GOVSTRUC.pdf fact sheet on government]. The Emperor acts '''only''' in purely cerimonial role under the direction of the Diet (Constitution, Chapter 1). So, while the CIA World Factbook calls Japan a constitutional monarchy, the Japanese Constitution grants the Emperor '''no authority''' beyond the symbolic, and that wholely under the direction of the Diet.
 
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Thus, how can we legitimately call Japan a "monarchy" if the monarch has zero power? I'd rather call it a parlimentary government, which is where the powers lie. If there is an insistance on including "monarch" in the description, it could be described as a "parilmentary government with cerimonial monarch." 
 
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'''Sources:''' [http://web-japan.org/index.html Web Japan], a site sponsored by the [http://www.mofa.go.jp/ Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs] (MOFA).
 

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