Official Government Positions
In 1941, the Ministry of Education published a book called "History of the Restoration", which is still used by modern scholars. This book referred to the "designation of Tokyo as capital" (東京奠都, Tōkyō-tento?) without talking about "moving the capital to Tokyo" (東京遷都, Tōkyō-sento?). A contemporary history textbook states that the Meiji government "moved the capital (shuto) from Kyoto to Tokyo" without using the sento term.
Recently, there has been a movement to transfer the capital from Tokyo, with the Gifu-Aichi region, the Mie-Kio region and other regions submitting bids for it. Officially, the relocation is referred to as "capital functions relocation" instead of "capital relocation", or as "relocation of the Diet and other organizations".
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