In many ways the city has never recovered from Hideyoshi's subsequent decision to move the national capital from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo) in the early 1600s a blow compounded by the young Emperor Meiji shifting the imperial household to Tokyo in 1868.
The city used to be the capital of Japan.
Ironically, price competition has emerged most robustly among businesses not addressed by the new law, such as DBS, cellular phone, and Internet service providers.