: The San Antonio City Council voted Thursday to approve a $19.4 Million repair project on the famous Tower of the Americas.

TOKYO: Passers-by stop and stare at the ramshackle, hand-built concrete tower that looks like it has been lifted right out of a Japanese animation and dropped onto a real-life Tokyo street.

With its wobbly lines and weird, wonderful ornamentation, Keisuke Oka's building has been compared to the animated Studio ...