A Diet Library

Yesterday I finished a long technical translation (being moments! yield shelfs! epoxy resin!) and an article on a well-known Japanese psych-rock band for a well-known American magazine, so I decided to head down to the Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (The National Library of the Diet) to look up data for my research. The library is very clean and efficient - books are ordered from a terminal, your number comes up when they arrive, then you can get them copied at a copying service that uses the same number board waiting process. I came home with Oricon chart data years 1997-2002 - the evidence of collusion is hidden somewhere in those numbers!

I had never seen the Diet building, so I took a stroll around it and snapped that picture. Such a bastion of Imperialist Authoritarianism Democracy! Well, it's a neat-looking building.