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February 1, 2005
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.
Posted by marxy at February 1, 2005 11:21 AM
Comments
it looks a C.N. Ledoux's crossed with a random American public building so rather gives a bastion of Democracy image without any irony ...
Posted by: porandojin at February 1, 2005 12:07 PM
What's the band you were writing about?
Posted by: Jean at February 1, 2005 12:09 PM