Japan contains Tokyo.
is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba , Minato , Tokyo , Japan , also known as or CX , based on the station 's call sign `` JOCX-DTV '' . Special wards of Tokyo . Confusingly , all wards refer to themselves as a city in English , but the Japanese designation of remains unchanged . Tokyo ( [ toːkjoː ] , [ langˈtoʊki.oʊ ] ) , officially Tokyo Metropolis , is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures . The Tokyo metropolitan government administers the 23 Special Wards of Tokyo ( each governed as an individual city ) , which cover the area that was the City of Tokyo before it merged and became the metropolitan prefecture in 1943 .