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		edflsafoiewq on Oct 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Are Japan’s Cherry Blossom Trees Blooming in F... It was also hardly a backwater... The Fall of Edo was only 150 years ago and before that Kyoto was the seat of the Emperor.

sandworm101 on Oct 24, 2018 [–]

Not a political or historical backwater, but also not the booming metropolis that was Tokyo. It was a backwater in terms of urbanization and urban heat island impacts.

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