Crown prince's 50-year-old palace remodeled to be energy efficient

Friday 07th August, 07:15 AM JST

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Statistician at 10:49 AM JST - 7th August

Only in Japan would someone know the age of a palace. I guess at fifty it ought to have been demolished long ago.
wanderlust at 10:51 AM JST - 7th August

Only 1 billion Yen for repair? Did it go out for bidding? Probably would have been cheaper to knock it down completely, and build a new one...
PASHA_51 at 01:15 PM JST - 7th August

Wow. More luxury at subjects' cost and taxes.
kamakuradude at 03:45 PM JST - 7th August

Only one billion yen. Wow, what a deal, eh? So, $10,000,000 US. Hmm, what could you get for that, I wonder. Time to get with it as the common folk suffer.
cnc at 09:21 PM JST - 7th August

energy efficient maybe....cost efficient definitely not. regular power bills for the next 50 years would still be cheaper than the money they just spent on so-called energy efficient renovations
usaexpat at 11:21 PM JST - 7th August

Oh, I feel so much better now we won't be wasting money on elctric and gas since we wasted it on remodeling the palace. Seriously, maybe it's because I'm an American but I think figurehead monarchies are a total waste of time and money.
JohnBecker at 02:25 AM JST - 8th August

Only in Japan would someone know the age of a palace.

I'm pretty sure they know the ages of most of the palaces in Europe...