If you're reading this in the Imperial Hotel, you're in Hibiya, an historic district which at the end of the Edo Period was perhaps Tokyo's most captivating and active international neighborhood - where everything was state of the art and utterly exotic.

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After standing for more than 40 years in the Hibiya district of Tokyo, it was decided that the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which opened in 1923, must be replaced...