{"id":51676,"date":"2023-01-06T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/06\/legacy-japan-nagakin-capsule-tower-lives-on-restored-pods"},"modified":"2023-01-06T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T04:00:39","slug":"legacy-of-japans-nagakin-capsule-tower-lives-on-in-restored-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51676","title":{"rendered":"Legacy of Japan\u2019s Nagakin Capsule Tower lives on in restored pods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Tokyo\u2019s most famous buildings was dismantled in April due to asbestos fears. Now 23  of the capsules have been saved for posterity<\/p>\n<p>Tatsuyuki Maeda had more reason than most to feel a pang of regret as he joined admirers and passing office workers to watch Nakagin Capsule Tower being dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>The building was not just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/09\/decaying-but-beloved-tokyos-capsule-tower-faces-uncertain-future\">one of Tokyo\u2019s most famous structures<\/a>; for more than a decade it had been Maeda\u2019s occasional home \u2013 a pied-\u00e0-terre in the heart of the city he had coveted since he first set eyes on it from his nearby workplace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/06\/legacy-japan-nagakin-capsule-tower-lives-on-restored-pods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Tokyo\u2019s most famous buildings was dismantled in April due to asbestos fears. Now 23  of the capsules have been saved for posterityTatsuyuki Maeda had more reason than most to feel a pang of regret as he joined admirers and passing office workers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,91,41,71,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51688,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51676\/revisions\/51688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}