Since Tokyo doesn't encourage foreign settlement, influential people have no *means* to get connected to it.
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Tokyo remains the best city in the world; the apex of urban life after millennia of development.
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If you're gonna live in a city instead of in the country, there is no better city to live in. Yet.
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You don't address Beijing's significance?
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Shanghai and Hong Kong more important
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Ah. I didn't grasp your criteria. OK.
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without the tax revenue Shanghai made over decades, Beijing's gov would be much weaker, etc...
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...imagine Washington DC with no NYC
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Yes. London is notable by its status as cultural and financial hub. It funds its own influence.
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