The capital moved to Edo

... The new Meiji government, which was established by rejecting the feudal domain system, proceeded to decide on the capital during the course of the Boshin War, which was triggered by a call to pursue the Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. Among the various proposals put forward by the anti-shogunate leader Okubo Toshimichi, the proposal to move the capital to Osaka, Maejima Mitsuru's proposal to move the capital to Edo, and the subsequent idea of ​​co-locating two capitals, Kyoto and Edo, the government's final policy was to move the capital to Edo. For the government (anti-shogunate) forces, this was a military occupation to suppress eastern Japan, which was controlled by the shogunate power and the pro-shogunate faction that supported it, and in fact, a military government was implemented in Edo at that time. ...

*Some of the terminology used in relation to the "moving of the capital to Edo" is listed below.

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…　幕藩体制を否定して成立した明治新政府は，将軍徳川慶喜追討の大号令を契機とする戊辰戦争の展開の過程で首都の決定をすすめた。討幕派の指導者大久保利通の大坂遷都論，前島密の江戸遷都論，ついで構想された京都･江戸の二京併置論などが提起されるなかで，最終的に政府の方針は江戸遷都に確定した。政府(討幕)軍にとって，それは幕府権力とそれを支持する佐幕派の支配する東日本を抑えるための軍事占領であり，事実，当時の江戸には軍政が施行された。…

※「江戸遷都」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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