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Japan anchors much of the current seed corpus, spanning domestic experiments, museums, churches, and the fine-grained work of contemporary bureaus.
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Cities currently grouped under this country
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Abeno-ku, Japan
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Aoba-ku, Japan
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Asahikawa, Japan
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Bandaijima, Japan
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Beppu, Japan
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Bunkyō-ku, Japan
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Chiyoda, Japan
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Daiba, Japan
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Dazaifu, Japan
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Ginza, Japan
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Higashi-Matabēchō, Japan
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Higashi-Shinbashi, Japan
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Higashiyama-ku, Japan
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Himeji, Japan
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Hiroshima, Japan
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Hondamachi, Japan
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Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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Ichibanboridōri-chō, Japan
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Imabari, Japan
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Izumo, Japan
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Jingūmae, Japan
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Jinnan, Japan
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Jūnichō, Japan
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Kai, Japan
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Kanan, Japan
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Ishikawa, Japan
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Kashihara, Japan
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Katsuyama, Japan
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Kioichō, Japan
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Kita-ku, Japan
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Kitaibaraki City, Japan
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Kitanomaru Park, Japan
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Kochi, Japan
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Kudanminami, Japan
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Marugame, Japan
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Marunouchi, Japan
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Matsue, Japan
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Minami-Aoyama, Japan
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Minami-ku, Japan
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Minato, Japan
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Minatomirai, Japan
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Mito, Japan
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Muromachi, Japan
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Nagakura, Japan
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Nagasaki, Japan
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Nagatoro, Japan
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Nakajimachō, Japan
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Nakanoshima, Japan
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Nakase, Japan
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Naoshima, Japan
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Nara, Japan
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Nipponbashi, Japan
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Nishi-Ikebukuro, Japan
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Nishi-Shinjuku, Japan
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Oita, Japan
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Onagawa, Japan
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Onomichi, Japan
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Osaka, Japan
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Ōtake-shi, Japan
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Puli Township, Japan
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Rinkaichō, Japan
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Roppongi, Japan
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Sakae 2-chōme, Japan
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Sakaide, Japan
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Sakata, Japan
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Sakyō-ku, Japan
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Sekiguchi, Japan
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Sendagaya, Japan
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Shimukappu, Japan
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Suita, Japan
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Takabatakechō, Japan
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Takahanachō, Japan
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Takasaki, Japan
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Takayama, Japan
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Takezono, Japan
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Toba, Japan
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Tobata-ku, Japan
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Tokiwa, Japan
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Tokyo, Japan
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Toyama, Japan
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Toyama Prefecture, Japan
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Toyota, Japan
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Ueno-kōen, Japan
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Wakasa, Japan
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Wakayama, Japan
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Yamaga, Japan
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Yokoami, Japan
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Yokosuka, Japan
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Yūrakuchō, Japan
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1897 · Higashiyama-ku, Higashiyama-ku, Japan
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1898 · Asahikawa, Asahikawa, Japan
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1903 · Kai, Kai, Japan
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1914 · Chiyoda, Chiyoda, Japan
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1921 · Nagatoro, Nagatoro, Japan
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1922 · Nishi-Ikebukuro, Nishi-Ikebukuro, Japan
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1923 · Kashihara, Kashihara, Japan
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1926 · Ueno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, Japan
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1934 · Takayama, Takayama, Japan
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1937 · Abeno-ku, Abeno-ku, Japan
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1939 · Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan
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1950 · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
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1952 · Kitanomaru Park, Kitanomaru Park, Japan
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1955 · Kioichō, Kioichō, Japan
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1955 · Nakajimachō, Nakajimachō, Japan
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1955 · Roppongi, Roppongi, Japan
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1956 · Sendagaya, Sendagaya, Japan
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1958 · Kochi, Kochi, Japan
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1959 · Ueno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, Japan
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1961 · Marunouchi, Marunouchi, Japan
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1961 · Ueno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, Japan
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1963 · Sakyō-ku, Sakyō-ku, Japan
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1963 · Yūrakuchō, Yūrakuchō, Japan
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1963 · Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
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1964 · Sekiguchi, Sekiguchi, Japan
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1964 · Jinnan, Jinnan, Japan
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1967 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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1968 · Yokoami, Yokoami, Japan
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1970 · Ginza, Ginza, Japan
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1971 · Takahanachō, Takahanachō, Japan
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1971 · Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
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1972 · Jingūmae, Jingūmae, Japan
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1974 · Suita, Suita, Japan
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1974 · Takasaki, Takasaki, Japan
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1976 · Osaka, Japan
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1977 · Kita-ku, Kita-ku, Japan
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1979 · Matsue, Matsue, Japan
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1980 · Onomichi, Onomichi, Japan
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1981 · Nagakura, Nagakura, Japan
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1982 · Tokiwa, Tokiwa, Japan
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1983 · Jūnichō, Jūnichō, Japan
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1983 · Sakata, Sakata, Japan
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1984 · Nipponbashi, Nipponbashi, Japan
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1985 · Minami-Aoyama, Minami-Aoyama, Japan
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1986 · Nakase, Nakase, Japan
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1987 · Chiyoda, Chiyoda, Japan
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1987 · Higashi-Matabēchō, Higashi-Matabēchō, Japan
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1988 · Shimukappu, Shimukappu, Japan
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1988 · Sakae 2-chōme, Sakae 2-chōme, Japan

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1989 · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan
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1989 · Minami-ku, Minami-ku, Japan
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1989 · Rinkaichō, Rinkaichō, Japan
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1989 · Minatomirai, Minatomirai, Japan
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1990 · Mito, Mito, Japan
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1990 · Jingūmae, Jingūmae, Japan
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1991 · Bunkyō-ku, Bunkyō-ku, Japan
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1991 · Marugame, Marugame, Japan
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1991 · Nishi-Shinjuku, Nishi-Shinjuku, Japan
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1992 · Naoshima, Naoshima, Japan
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1992 · Takabatakechō, Takabatakechō, Japan
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1992 · Yamaga, Yamaga, Japan
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1993 · Yokoami, Yokoami, Japan
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1994 · Kanan, Kanan, Japan
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1994 · Nishi-Shinjuku, Nishi-Shinjuku, Japan
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1994 · Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Japan
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1995 · Toyota, Toyota, Japan
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1996 · Daiba, Daiba, Japan
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1996 · Marunouchi, Marunouchi, Japan
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1996 · Takezono, Takezono, Japan
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1997 · Kitaibaraki City, Kitaibaraki City, Japan
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1997 · Toyota, Toyota, Japan
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1998 · Oita, Oita, Japan
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1999 · Nakanoshima, Nakanoshima, Japan
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1999 · Nara, Nara, Japan
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1999 · Kudanminami, Kudanminami, Japan
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1999 · Matsue, Matsue, Japan
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2000 · Katsuyama, Katsuyama, Japan
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2001 · Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan
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2002 · Higashi-Shinbashi, Higashi-Shinbashi, Japan
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2003 · Higashi-Shinbashi, Higashi-Shinbashi, Japan
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2003 · Muromachi, Muromachi, Japan
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2003 · Bandaijima, Bandaijima, Japan
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2004 · Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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2005 · Sakaide, Sakaide, Japan
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2005 · Dazaifu, Dazaifu, Japan
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2005 · Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan
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2006 · Roppongi, Roppongi, Japan
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2007 · Izumo, Izumo, Japan
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2007 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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2007 · Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Japan
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2008 · Puli Township, Puli Township, Japan
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2009 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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2011 · Hondamachi, Hondamachi, Japan
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2011 · Imabari, Imabari, Japan
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2012 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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2015 · Oita, Oita, Japan
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2024 · Toyota, Toyota, Japan

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Unknown · Minato, Minato, Japan
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Unknown · Toba, Toba, Japan
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Unknown · Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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studio · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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1931-2022 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Arata Isozaki was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and architectural theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University.
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1928-2024 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fumihiko Maki was a Japanese architect. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. Maki died on 6 June 2024, at the age of 95.
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Born 1950 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshi Naito is an architect from Japan, known for his modern-style buildings. His work includes projects in other countries. He is the principal architect at Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates in Tokyo. He is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and President of Tama Art University
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Born 1941 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Itsuko Hasegawa is a Japanese architect.
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Born 1956 · Tokyo, Japan
An architect whose work often pursues lightness, permeability, and subtle social choreography through pared-down forms.
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Born 1954 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A Japanese architect whose work often softens civic and cultural buildings through wood, screens, layered thresholds, and close attention to urban atmosphere.
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1913-2005 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He first achieved recognition for his projects to reconstruct the destroyed cities of postwar Japan, partic…
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1934-2007 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kisho Kurokawa was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement.
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1928-2011 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kiyonori Kikutake was a prominent Japanese architect known as one of the founders of the Japanese Metabolist group. He was also the tutor and employer of several important Japanese architects, such as Toyo Ito, Shōzō Uchii and Itsuko Hasegawa.
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1905-1986 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kunio Maekawa was a Japanese architect and a key figure of modernism in post-war Japan. After early stints in the studios of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond, Maekawa began to articulate his architectural language after establishing his firm in 1935, maintaining a continuous tension between Japanese traditional design…
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Born 1945 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Riken Yamamoto is a Japanese architect. In 2024, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the 9th Japanese architect to receive such honor.
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Born 1966 · Tokyo, Japan
A Japanese architect whose work explores openness, fine-grained structural order, and unusually soft boundaries between rooms and landscapes.
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Born 1957 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Many of his notable designs are structures which are temporary, prefabricated, or incorporate inexpensive and unconventional materials in innovati…
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Born 1941 · Osaka, Japan
A self-taught architect known for elemental concrete volumes, calibrated natural light, and intense spatial sequencing.
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1891-1984 · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Tōgo Murano was a Japanese architect. Although his formative years were between 1910 and 1930, he remained active in design throughout his life and at the time of his death was responsible for over three hundred completed projects.
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Born 1941 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's most innovative and in…
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1937-2024 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshio Taniguchi was a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was reopened on 20 November 2004. Critics have emphasized Taniguchi's fusion of traditional Japanese and Modernist aesthetics. Martin Filler, writing in The New York Times, praised "the luminous ph…
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