Rokumeikan site

Tokyo Prefecture · Japan

Rokumeikan site, Japan
Photo: Rijksmuseum, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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The former location of a lavish 1883 government guesthouse where Meiji elites entertained Western diplomats with balls and banquets. The building is gone, but the site marks Japan's push to project a modern, cosmopolitan image.

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