Tokyo (AFP) - Tokyo's sixties-era modernist masterpiece Hotel Okura, which hosted foreign leaders, royalty, celebrities and even James Bond, turns off the lights Monday, more than a half century after it heralded Japan's post-war coming out party.
Despite an outcry from preservationists, the prestigious 53-year-old property shuts its doors for a four-year makeover that will give way to a gleaming highrise hotel -- the latest heritage building to undergo a facelift in the ultra-modern Japanese megalopolis.
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