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28-429: The building's three-sided construction makes good use of available space, yet the building's design sacrifices valuable floor space by including a massive atrium running the entire height of the building. The building's most recognizable characteristic is its shape and structure. It is most simply described as triangular (a more apt description would be a triangle with all the corners cut off), hence why one of its nicknames

56-524: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Shinjuku Mitsui Building The Shinjuku Mitsui Building ( 新宿三井ビル , Shinjuku Mitsui Biru ) is a high-rise building in Nishi-Shinjuku , Shinjuku , Tokyo . It is owned by Mitsui Fudosan . It is one of the ten tallest buildings in Tokyo , and was the tallest building in Tokyo and Japan from September 1974 to March 1978, when Sunshine 60

84-425: A horizontal coalition of independent companies in the 1950s, once the occupation of Japan had ended and some of the smaller companies were allowed to re-coalesce. The central firms in the keiretsu became Mitsui Bank and Mitsui & Co. Mitsui lagged somewhat behind its rivals Mitsubishi and Sumitomo Group in reorganization. Mitsui Bank, which should have been the mainstay and principal capital provider of

112-514: A political furor in Japan and resulted in the assassination of Mitsui executive Takuma Dan . During the 1930s and '40s, the subsidiary tobacco industry of Mitsui had started production of special "Golden Bat" cigarettes using the then-popular Far East trademark. Their circulation was prohibited in Japan and was used only for export. Local Japanese secret service kempeitai under the controversial Imperial Japanese Army General Kenji Doihara had

140-584: A restaurant and a club called "Shinjuku Mitsui Club" for current and former employees of the Mitsui Group and their relatives. There is no observation deck open to the public. Other floors occupied by tenant office space, except for the B1 to 5th floors, which house banks, restaurants, dental offices, and so on. [REDACTED] Media related to Shinjuku Mitsui Building at Wikimedia Commons Mitsui Group Mitsui Group ( 三井グループ , Mitsui Gurūpu )

168-520: Is 'the Triangle'. Also distinctive is the visible emergency elevator, which is used to transport cargo and not everyday passengers. Construction began in November 1971 and was finished on March 6, 1974. At the time of its completion, its elevators were the fastest in the world at 540 meters per minute. It was the tallest building in Japan and Asia from March to September 1974, when it was surpassed by

196-419: Is a Japanese corporate group and keiretsu that traces its roots to the zaibatsu groups that were dissolved after World War II. Unlike the zaibatsu of the pre-war period, there is no controlling company with regulatory power. Instead, the companies in the group hold shares in each other, but they are limited to exchanging information and coordinating plans through regular meetings. The major companies of

224-576: The Meiji Restoration , Mitsui was among the enterprises that were able to expand to become zaibatsu not simply because they were already big and rich at the start of modern industrial development. Firms like Mitsui and Sumitomo were led by non-family managers such as Minomura Rizaemon, who guided the business by accurately forecasting the coming political and economic situations, by acquaintance with high-ranking government officials or politicians, and bold investment. Mitsui's main business in

252-574: The Far East , sentenced to death; but no actions ever took place against the company which profited from their production. According to testimony presented at the Tokyo War Crimes trials in 1948, the revenue from the narcotization policy in China, including Manchukuo , was estimated in 20 million to 30 million yen per year, while another authority stated that the annual revenue was estimated by

280-642: The Japanese military at US$ 300 million a year. During the Second World War , Mitsui employed American prisoners of war as slave laborers, some of whom were maimed by Mitsui employees. In 1947 and 1948, the Supreme Commander Allied Powers pressed the Japanese government to dismantle the ten largest zaibatsu conglomerates, including Mitsui. The Mitsui Group, broken into many separate companies, reorganized itself as

308-804: The Sumitomo Building was knocked over by Godzilla , crushing and breaking the Super X. Also, in the Doraemon film Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops ( ドラえもん のび太と鉄人兵団 , Doraemon: Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan ) , the building was accidentally destroyed in the World Inside the Mirror by the huge robot Zanda Claus . This article about a Japanese building- or structure-related topic is

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336-526: The city of Edo, cash sales were not yet a widespread business practice. Edo's government had struck a business deal with Osaka . Osaka would sell crops and other material to pay its land tax. The money was then sent to Edo—but moving money was dangerous in middle feudal Japan . In 1683, the shogunate granted permission for money exchanges ( ryōgaeten ) to be established in Edo. The Mitsui "exchange shops" facilitated transfers while mitigating risks. After

364-570: The control of their distribution in China and Manchuria where the production exported. Within the mouthpiece were small discreet doses of opium or heroin, and consequently millions of unsuspecting consumers became addicted to these narcotics, while huge profits were created for the company. The mastermind of the plan, Doihara, was later prosecuted and convicted for war crimes before the International Military Tribunal for

392-547: The creation in 1878, of Osaka Shosen Kaisha (OSK), which was merged with Mitsui Steamship in 1964, to become Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), which became one of the largest ocean shipping groups in the world. When the United Kingdom withdrew from the gold standard in 1931, during the height of the Great Depression , Mitsui Bank and Mitsui & Co. were found to have speculated around the transaction. This raised

420-407: The customer's house (typically a person of high social class or who was successful in business), an order taken, then fulfilled. The system of accountancy was called "margin transaction". Mitsui changed this by producing products first, then selling them directly at his shop for cash. This was then an unfamiliar mode of operation in Japan. Even as the shop began providing dry goods to the government of

448-517: The early period was drapery, finance, and trade, the first two being the businesses it inherited from the Tokugawa Era. It entered into mining when it acquired a mine as collateral from a loan it had made, partly because it could buy a mine cheaply from the government, Mitsui then diversified to become the biggest business in pre-war Japan. The diversification was mainly into related fields to take advantage of accumulated capabilities; for instance,

476-513: The family shop, Echigoya. He opened a new branch in 1673; a large gofukuya ( kimono shop) in Nihonbashi , a district in the heart of Edo. The genesis of Mitsui's business was in the Enpō era, which was a nengō meaning "Prolonged Wealth". In time, the gofukuya division separated from Mitsui, and became Mitsukoshi . Traditionally, gofukuyas provided products made to order; a visit was made to

504-402: The group include Mitsui & Co. ( general trading company ), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation , Nippon Paper Industries , Pokka Sapporo Holdings , Toray Industries , Mitsui Chemicals , Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings , Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings , Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding , Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Mitsui Fudosan . Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi (1622–1694), who

532-642: The group, declined in size due to the collapse of the Imperial Bank after the war, which resulted in reduced cohesion of the conglomerate. Many companies that were once part of the Mitsui Group have become independent or tied to other conglomerates. Specifically, Toshiba , Toyota Motors , and Suntory , once part of the Mitsui Group, became independent, with the Toyota Group becoming a conglomerate in its own right. In 2000, Mitsui Pharmaceuticals

560-548: The nearby Shinjuku Mitsui Building . It was developed by Sumitomo Realty & Development , the real estate arm of the Sumitomo Group , and previously housed Sumitomo Realty's headquarters. A pioneering skyscraper in Shinjuku, many companies are tenants of the building, as well as several restaurants. The free observation deck on the 51st floor was closed on April 1, 2017. In the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla ,

588-544: The roof of the building to counter long period ground motion . The pendulums will reduce magnitude of building motion by half or more during a major earthquake, such as the Great East Japan earthquake of 2011. Capcom has its Tokyo offices in the building. The top 55th floor was formerly occupied by a Chinese restaurant called the Mandarin Palace, but now it houses tenant offices. The 54th floor has

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616-462: The side of the building serve as seismic reinforcement and also as braces for the doors of the machine rooms at each end of every floor. The doors are 4–5 floors tall, for replacement of equipment such as air-conditioners. As in the older Keio Plaza Hotel , some fire escape exits are exposed outside the building to prevent smoke from accumulating in the case of fire. In 2013, Mitsui Fudosan and Kajima Corporation began installing six massive pendulums on

644-507: The skyscrapers in Shinjuku. It is located next to the Shinjuku Center Building , which is two meters lower but appears to be taller because its first floor is located on higher ground. It made an appearance in the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla . The building's height is 212 meters to the top of the roof, and 225 meters to the architectural top. Its entrance lobby is on the second floor. The X-shaped steel braces on

672-496: The trading company entered into chemicals to attain forward integration. On July 1, 1876, Mitsui Bank, Japan's first private bank, was founded with Takashi Masuda (1848–1938) as its president. Mitsui Bank, which following a merger with Taiyō-Kobe Bank in the mid-1980s became part of Sakura Bank , survives as part of the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation . During the early 20th century, Mitsui

700-708: Was acquired by the German Schering AG from Berlin . Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries ( IHI Corporation ) is now considered to be part of the Mizuho Group , and many companies in the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group are more closely tied to the Sumitomo Group than the Mitsui Group. As of 2021 there were signs that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and the Mitsubishi Group could be taking over other parts of

728-478: Was completed. It was built in the style of high-rise buildings that were being built in the United States in the 1970s. It is notable for the black diagonal braces on its east and west facades. At the base of the skyscraper is a sunken garden and a surprisingly large plaza. In addition to the sunken garden, there is also a roof-top garden . With its black facades, Shinjuku Mitsui Building stands out among

756-541: Was one of the largest zaibatsu , operating in numerous fields. Mitsui Bank became the holding company of the Mitsui zaibatsu from 1876. It was joined as an ultimate parent company by Mitsui & Co. and Mitsui Mining in 1900, with various industrial concerns owned by various combinations of these companies and their subsidiaries. Likewise, Mitsui invested in maritime transportation to support its trading activities as well as invest in passenger transportation, first with

784-596: Was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka , in what became Mie prefecture . From his shop, called Echigoya (越後屋), Mitsui Takatoshi's father originally sold miso and ran a pawn shop business. The family would later open a second shop in Edo (modern Tokyo ). Takatoshi moved to Edo when he was 14 years old, and later his older brother joined him. Sent back to Matsusaka by his brother, Takatoshi waited for 24 years until his older brother died before he could take over

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