This is perhaps because the Imperial family themselves still lives in the premises. This is why the♣ main area of the Imperial Palace is closed for public, except on two specific day of the year, which is♣ January 2nd for New Year's Greetings event and December 23rd which is the Emperor's Birthday.

The Imperial♣ Hotel itself would be demolished in 1968 to make way for a new, larger hotel. Portions of Wright's Imperial Hotel♣ were saved and rebuilt at The Meiji-mura open-air architecture museum in Inuyama, near Nagoya.

From 1946 to 1948 work progressed on the Kalashnikov rifle. In 1949 one of his rifles, the⚾️ Avtomat Kalashnikova Obrazets 1947, was accepted by the Soviet Army and quickly dubbed the AK-47.

AK-47, Soviet assault rifle, possibly the most widely⚾️ used shoulder weapon in the world. The initials AK represent Avtomat Kalashnikova, Russian for automatic Kalashnikov,  for its⚾️ designer, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947.