After the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 last year, the performance of the spectacularly tall Tokyo Sky Tree going up in the capital's downtown Sumida Ward became a subject of heightened interest to experts, residents and the general public alike.
Tobu Tower Sky Tree, the corporate owner of the project, reported that no structural damage resulted from the magnitude-9 temblor, whose epicenter was some 350 km to the north off the Pacific coast of Miyagi Prefecture.
Credit for this accomplishment can in part be attributed to temples all the way down in the ancient capital of Kyoto.