NATLANG: pitch accent question

If I understand correctly, Japanese (a language rarely discussed round
here - wonder why?) has contrastive tone, but the pattern of tones is
organised on the word level, by the position (and choice?) of a pitch
accent, in a similar way to the Swedish system.

Two questions for you all.  Firstly: am I right?  Secondly: are there
any other natlangs (or conlangs for that matter) that organise tone on
a lexical level, and do they have interestingly different ways of
achieving this?

ObConlang: I need this kind of structure for Telona and I'm not sure
how to go about creating it in a naturalistic way.

Thanks!
Jonathan.

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'O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages...'
Auden/Britten, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'

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