YOKOHAMA – An old briefcase containing draft plans and other documents linked to U.S. architect Jay Hill Morgan, who designed the former Marunouchi Building near Tokyo Station among other structures in Japan from the 1920s, has been discovered in Yokohama, local officials said.
Researchers are combing the valuable contents of the brown leather briefcase, which was found in a warehouse, for information about Yokohama from that era, according to the Yokohama Archives of History.
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