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In Tokugawa Japan, why did the Shogunate continue to allow the daimyo to exist? It seems the shogun had the power to reassign daimyo at will, and some daimyo posed a consistent threat to his power. Why not just remove them all and transfer local administrative duties to the provinces or something?

by /u/Max1461 in /r/AskHistorians

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