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The recently decommissioned French Embassy in Tokyo was temporarily converted in a massive art project, with dozens of artists contributing, called "No Man's Land", which closed on February 17th, 2010. This is the old entryway for the consular section, somewhat altered. The big yellow cat is an import from Paris, a bit of street art known as "Monsieur Chat".
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The recently decommissioned French Embassy in Tokyo was temporarily converted in a massive art project, with dozens of artists contributing, called "No Man's Land", which closed on February 17th, 2010. This is the old courtyard for the consular section, somewhat altered.
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The recently decommissioned French Embassy in Tokyo was temporarily converted in a massive art project, with dozens of artists contributing, called "No Man's Land", which closed on February 17th, 2010. This is the old entryway for the consular section, somewhat altered.
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The recently decommissioned French Embassy in Tokyo was temporarily converted in a massive art project, with dozens of artists contributing, called "No Man's Land", which closed on February 17th, 2010. And since it had corporate sponsorship, that's a new Peugeot in the corner.
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The recently decommissioned French Embassy in Tokyo was temporarily converted in a massive art project, with dozens of artists contributing, called "No Man's Land", which closed on February 17th, 2010. This is a night shot of the old entryway for the consular section, somewhat altered.
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The recently decommissioned French Embassy in Tokyo was temporarily converted in a massive art project, with dozens of artists contributing, called "No Man's Land", which closed on February 17th, 2010. This is the courtyard for the consular section, somewhat altered.
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Oh, and the terraces under the trestle? Those are the fields.
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"Taco", by the way, means "octopus" in Japanese.
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This monument, in the heavily forested park across from the New Otani Hotel, memorializes the assassination of Toshimichi Okubo (1830 – 1878). Okubo was a samurai who became a leader of Japan's Meiji Restoration (which overthrew the shogunate and set Japan on its modernization course) -- accomplishments which lead to his assassination here by a group of disaffected samurai.
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Built in 1956 and designed by Czech-born architect Antonin Raymond, a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright who came to Japan to assist Wright on the construction of the Imperial Hotel in the 1920s but stayed in Japan and carved out his own pioneering practice. Here, Raymond experimented with the structural use of folded concrete plates, and produced an unprecedented smoothness through the use of metal-plate formwork. His wife and collaborator Noemi Raymond worked on the design of the interior.
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