John Barr
 

The Osaka Memorial Hall marks the introduction of parliamentary democracy to Japan and the possibility of a new beginning after WWII.

The design of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building represents a time when modernism was concerned with social issues.

The Kagawa Prefectural Government Offices (1958) offered a radical new vision of what Japanese public buildings might be.

The background to the Hiroshima Peace Centre hardly needs to be explained: the first use of the Atomic Bomb and the deaths of over 200,000.

The real value of Tokyo's Dojunkai Apartments has been ignored in the rush to maximise economic gain from the land that they occupied.