Old piano played by Einstein returns to Japan's Nara hotel

NARA, Japan - Toshiyuki Tsuji, chief of Nara Hotel's Planning Department, shows the piano which Albert Einstein played in the hotel in Nara, Nara Prefecture, in 1922. The U.S.-made piano, which was seized by the General Headquarters of the allied powers soon after the end of World War II and then ended up in the Modern Transportation Museum in Osaka, returned to the hotel on Jan. 9 for the first time in 64 years. Einstein stayed at the hotel during a visit to the city while he was in Japan. The hotel found the piano in the process of reviewing its own history on the 100th anniversary of its establishment in 1909.

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• ILEA001131372

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• 2009/1/09 00:00:00

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• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

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• 2009 Kyodo News

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