TOKYO — It has often been observed that megalopolis Tokyo has had two chances to re-organize itself—after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and after the WWII fire bombings—and it squandered both. Yet anyone who has spent any extended time in Tokyo, or visited more than once, knows that the city is constantly changing itself. Buildings are often destroyed to make way for something newer and more modern. So much so that many fine examples of Tokyo’s older architecture that somehow managed to survive the earlier catastrophes fall to the wrecking ball.
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