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Osaka Photo: Osaka Castle
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Photograph by Dallas and John Heaton/Free Agents Limited/CORBIS
Though some outstanding examples survive, like Osaka Castle, most of the city's traditional wooden architecture was destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II.
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