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Show Architecture in Japan. European architecture is gradually . gaining a foothold in Japan and must sooner or later dominate, just as European Eu-ropean styles of dress are soon to dominate in the big cities. In Tokio and other large centers of population all the new business houses are built on European plans. They are found to be more practicable. The residences resi-dences are still of the Japanese style. Some of the larger and finer residences in the cities are built like American houses, but most stick to the old customs. cus-toms. The government does not own its buildings, but rents them, and these, without exception, are of European Eu-ropean design. The Europeans and Americans never .stop at the Japanese hotels, because they can not do with-', out chairs. Our hotels have nothing but couches. Correspondence Washington Wash-ington Post. j |