Kyoto

Kyoto (京都市 Kyōto-shi, pronounced [kʲjoːꜜto.ɕi]; UK /kɪˈt/, US /kiˈ-/, or /ˈkj-/) is a city located in the central part of the island of Honshu, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the Imperial capital of Japan for more than one thousand years, it is now the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture located in the Kansai region, as well as a major part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area. Kyoto is also known as the thousand-year capital.

Name

In Japanese, the city has been called Kyō (), Miyako (), or Kyō no Miyako (京の都). In the 11th century, the city was renamed Kyoto ("capital city"), after the Chinese word for capital city, jingdu (京都). After the city of Edo was renamed Tokyo (meaning "Eastern Capital") in 1868, and the seat of the Emperor was transferred there, Kyoto was known for a short time as Saikyō (西京, meaning "Western Capital").

Obsolete spellings for the city's name include Kioto and Meaco. Another term commonly used to refer to the city in the pre-modern period was Keishi (京師), meaning "metropolis" or "capital".

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How Haruki Murakami and other writers are grappling with our surreal post-pandemic reality

The Los Angeles Times 16 Nov 2024
But does his latest novel speak to the current moment? Is it, as the publisher suggests, “a parable of these strange post-pandemic times”? Murakami is from Kyoto, an ancient Japanese capital with historic cultural institutions ... removed Kyoto from its list of targets for atomic destruction ... Transience is a motif of other recent post-pandemic works....
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If you watch just one anime movie this year, make sure it's this instant classic ...

Games Radar 11 Nov 2024
After all, it's difficult to unmoor Kyomoto's death from the real-life tragedy that saw 36 people die after an arson attack at the Kyoto Animation studio in 2019, one of Japan's worst post-World War Two massacres ... Attack on Titan movie's post-credits scene has been revealed – and it's not what we were expecting....
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UN climate negotiations through the years to COP29

Colorado Springs Gazette 08 Nov 2024
1997 - At COP3 in Kyoto, Japan, parties agree to varied emissions cuts for each of the developed countries ... 2009 - COP15 talks in Copenhagen nearly collapse after wrangling over a post-Kyoto framework, with countries voting to instead "take note" of a non-binding political statement ... Delegates instead extend the Kyoto Protocol through 2017....
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World’s first wooden satellite launched into space

The Observer 05 Nov 2024
Scientists at Kyoto University expect the wooden material to burn up when the device re-enters the atmosphere – potentially providing a way to avoid generating metal particles when a retired satellite returns to Earth ... Takao Doi, an astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holding an engineering model of LignoSat....

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