"Without that Expo... Metal Gear and Death Stranding would not have come into being."

As spotted by Automaton, the 62-year-old Kojima wrote an essay for An-An magazine detailing how Expo '70 shaped his worldview ...
Time

Kenzo Tange

During World War II, American firebombing reduced some 40% of Japan’s total urban area to rubble. From this horrifying destruction came a historic burst of reconstruction. It was an extraordinary ...
Reuters

Two Olympics, two Tokyos: Father, son design aquatics venues decades apart

TOKYO, June 15 (Reuters) - When Paul Noritaka Tange won the rights to design the Aquatics Centre for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, one of the first things he did was to visit the grave of his father: the ...
Seattle Times

The jewel of the 1964 Olympics: The Yoyogi National Stadium

TOKYO (AP) — The Yoyogi National Stadium by Kenzo Tange was the elegant symbol of Tokyo’s 1964 Summer Olympics, a combination of modern technique and Japanese tradition. Tange was awarded the Pritzker ...