National Diet Building
Plans for a Diet building began in 1881.  The planners hoped to finish it by 1890, when the Diet would meet for the first time.  They realized they could not build a very impressive building in time, so they decided to make temporary buildings at first.  The first Diet building was a Western-style building made of wood.  It burned down in 1891.  Another wooden building was made and finished in 1891.  It burned down in 1925.  A third building was made.  The Diet used it until 1936, when the current Diet building was finished.