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

Toyoda Hall, Fumihiko Maki's debut project, contains the seeds of ideas that he has continued to develop throughout his career...

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

The Ura House, designed by Takamasa Yoshizaka in 1956, is influenced by Corbusian ideas but also anticipates Japanese Metabolism.

The Osaka Gas Building, designed by Takeo Yasui and completed in 1933, reflects Osaka's optimistic embrace of the future at that time.

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.

Tokyo Women's Christian University is Antonin Raymond's first major building in Japan.

In the 20th century Katsura Imperial Villa became a kind of touchstone for the essence of Japanese architecture.

One of the qualities of traditional Japanese architecture rarely acknowledged is that, for the most part, it was built cheaply.