Imperial Hotel. ☆ Imperial Hotel (Japanese: Imperial Hotel(Japanese: Imperial Hotel) is located in the south of the Imperial Palace, near the site of the old moat, located in the south of the Imperial Palace, near the site of the old moat. The hotel overlooks landmarks such as the Imperial Palace, Hibiya Park, ginza and more. In the 1880s, Chinese Japanese proposed to build hotels to serve the growing number of foreign tourists. The main building of the original Imperial Hotel, designed by Watanabe (1890-1922).
The second generation of the Imperial Hotel main building, Wright design (1922-1967). The existing Imperial Hotel consists of three main buildings. Including the annex, the Imperial Hotel has a history of 10 buildings, two of which were designed by American architect Frank Roy Wright, and are one of his most famous works in Japan. Princess Kiyoko, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito, was married to a commoner, Kuroda Keiki, at the Imperial Hotel on November 15, 2005.
The optical equipment used by the Japanese military in the early twentieth century was purchased from European and American countries, especially from Germany, because optical equipment was extremely important for observation and targeting, which directly affected intelligence collection and shooting accuracy. In order to avoid being held back after feuds with European and American countries in the future, Iwasaki Komita funded the establishment of the Japan Optical Industry Company in 1917, and the name of Nikon is also the Japanese pinyin of "Japanese Optics".
Nikon Corporation. ☆ Due to the rapid growth of Japan's national income after the 1960s, the consumption capacity of residents has increased significantly, coupled with the Japanese people's love of photography, which has greatly driven Nikon's camera business. By the 1980s, Nikon, along with Canon and Pentax, had become the three major suppliers of photographic equipment in Japan, and had successfully entered the international market and become one of the world's leading manufacturers of cameras.
Toshiro Mifune. ☆ Toshiro Mifune (1 April 1920 – 24 December 1997), born in Qingdao, China during the Japanese Lend-Lease period, was a Japanese film actor of worldwide renown. Toshiro Mifune has twice won the Best Actor Award at the Venice International Film Festival. In 2016, Toshiro Mifune was awarded the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in recognition of his contributions to the world film scene.
Disabled soldiers of World War II begged in the streets. ☆ After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, Japan invested the indemnities in the Treaty of Maguan to expand its army. On August 15, 1945, Japan, the Axis power of World War II, surrendered to the Allies and the Japanese Army was disbanded. After the disbandment, the livelihood of the military was difficult, there was no shelter, and they could only receive monthly government relief payments.
Kabukicho. ☆Kabukicho is the name of a town (street outline) in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, and is one of the few large-scale red light districts in Japan where restaurants, entertainment venues, and movie theaters are concentrated. Kabukicho was born during the post-war reconstruction period of World War II. In 1948 (Showa 23), it was decided to make this place a place of entertainment for civilians, and it was named "Kabukicho" after the proposal of Ishikawa Honoraru, the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Construction Bureau at the time.
Under the Meiji government's modernization policy, Tokyo began to take on a westernized appearance (especially architecture), and in 1872, Japan's first railway was completed between Tokyo and Yokohama, which became a new transportation innovation. Since then, Tokyo has gradually moved toward modernization and international urbanization.
The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the intensive bombardment of U.S. warplanes at the end of World War II devastated the heart of Tokyo twice, but then quickly rebuilt, and in the 1960s it entered a period of rapid urban development. Tokyo, Japan, 1961. Photograph by René Brie