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Originally Posted by TalnSG
I was aware of this in China, but not so much in Japan. Changing street names in U.S. cities for political reasons is fairly common. Usually its a name whose history has been lost and it is renamed to honor someone. But I don't recall any U.S. cities changing names since the mid-1800s, except if a part of a city separates to form their own city. Such as Monroe, LA dividing into Monroe and West Monroe.
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I know Tokyo and I think Nagoya have both changed their names. Tokyo was once called 江戸 and Nagoya was once called 中京 (not sure if this one was an official name or a nickname, though). Kyoto has changed its name from 平安京 to 京 to 京の都 before changing its name in the 11th century to 京都. After Tokyo became the capital, it was also called 西京 for a time. I think each name change was near some government change.