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The tower called Tsutenkaku, a name that can be rendered as the tower reaching to heaven, stands at the centre of the old Shinsekai district of Osaka and has become an emblem of the city's downtown, working-class character. The present steel tower, rising about 100 metres, dates from 1956, a postwar rebuild of an earlier structure put up in 1912 that had combined echoes of the Eiffel Tower with a replica of a Parisian arch below; that first tower was dismantled during the Second World War when i...