Nishi-Shinjuku

In fact, however, the nation is seeking to possess military power beyond its means at the behest of the United States.

Breakdancers still preserving their holy site in Nishi Shinjuku.

After businesspeople head home from their offices in the skyscraper district of Nishi Shinjuku in Tokyo, breakdancers begin descending on the area, specifically around one high-rise.

By eight thirty PM, when the lights in the west side lobby of the Sompo Japan Head Office building are turned off, twenty to thirty dancers are practicing their moves, watching their reflections on the glass walls, and listening to music from smartphones through wireless earphones or speakers.

They are mainly students and working adults in their teens and twenties, but there are also grade schoolers and those in their forties.

In fact, however, the nation is seeking to possess military power beyond its means at the behest of the United States.

[chime] Breakdancers still preserving their holy site in Nishi Shinjuku.

After business people head home from their offices in the skyscraper district of Nishi Shinjuku in Tokyo, breakdancers begin descending on the area, specifically around one high rise.

By eight thirty PM, when the lights in the west side lobby of the Sompo Japan Head Office building are turned off, twenty to thirty dancers are practicing their moves, watching their reflections on the glass walls and listening to music from smartphones through wireless earphones or speakers.

They are mainly students and working adults in their teens and twenties, but there are also grade schoolers and those in their forties.

Oh, it really is.

She didn't just step into an abstract role, she entered a very specific building, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Nishi-Shinjuku.

Designed by the legendary architect Kenzo Tange, completed in nineteen ninety-one.

And Tange didn't just build an office block.

And the land it sits on has its own history of purification too, doesn't it?

Yes.

Historically, that exact plot of land in Nishi-Shinjuku used to be the Yodobashi Purification Plant, which supplied Tokyo its drinking water for decades.

Correct.