The is a 36-story skyscraper located in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda,

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History

The building is owned by the ''

Kasumi Kaikan The Kasumi Kaikan (霞会館) is the association of the former ''kazoku'' of Japan. It was originally called the Kazoku Kaikan (華族会館), or Peers' Club, and renamed in 1947 after the post-war Constitution of Japan abolished the hereditary p ...

'' (霞会館), an association of the former '' kazoku'' high nobility. The plot was once owned by the ''Kazoku Kaikan'' (華族会館), the previous association, which was changed after World War II in 1947. Completed in 1968, the building is widely regarded as the first modern office skyscraper in Japan. The reason high-rise buildings were not built in the country earlier was that Japan's Building Standard Law set an absolute height limit of until 1963, when the limit was abolished in favor of a Floor Area Ratio limit.

Tenants

The Asian Development Bank Institute has its head office on the 8th floor of the Kasumigaseki Building. On the same floor, the Asian Development Bank has its Japan offices.

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has offices on the 15th floor of the building. At one time

All Nippon Airways , also known as ANA (''Ē-enu-ē'') or is an airline in Japan. Its headquarters are located in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo. It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had m ...

had its headquarters in the building, as did Mitsui Chemicals. In July 1978, when Nippon Cargo Airlines first began, it operated within a single room inside

's space in the Kasumigaseki Building. Two airlines, Garuda Indonesia and Union des Transports Aériens, at one time had offices in the building.''Director of Foreign Residents, Volume 31''.

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(original from the

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, digitized December 9, 2008) on February 19, 2010. The ''Kasumi Kaikan'' has their club rooms on the 34th floor and is strictly for members only, namely descendants of the '' kazoku''.

In popular culture

The Kasumigaseki Building is the main subject of the film '' Chōkōsō no Akebono'', which was backed by

Kajima Construction is one of the oldest and largest construction companies in Japan. Founded in 1840, the company has its headquarters in Motoakasaka, Minato, Tokyo. The company is known for its DIB-200 proposal. The company stock is traded on four leading Jap ...

, the company that built the Kasumigaseki Building. The building was often used for comparison to things with large volumes in Japan which continued until the construction of the Tokyo Dome, a huge indoor stadium.

References

External links

Kasumigaseki Building
Official site (in Japanese) {{Authority control Skyscraper office buildings in Tokyo All Nippon Airways Office buildings completed in 1968 Airline headquarters Mitsui Fudosan 1968 establishments in Japan Buildings and structures in Chiyoda, Tokyo